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...surprise my approach to Marshall would be stupendous. That old couple would be departing just as I arrived and—“Winifred, dear.”The ruby velvet glove clamped onto my arm. I managed a “Mrs. Graham” with the ghastliest smile that’s ever blighted a lady’s face. I looked into the eyes of Trent’s mother and felt just the way I did when I read about that Nepalese man charged by a rhinoceros.“I didn?...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...colleagues. Disguised as police agents, the rebels stormed a government building in the southern city of Cali in 2002, announced a bomb threat and then herded a dozen lawmakers, including Lopez, aboard a bus and drove them into the mountains. But the operation ended up in one of the ghastliest blunders of Colombia's four-decade-long civil war. In June 2007, guerrilla guards mistakenly thought they were under attack by the army and, in a panic, executed 11 of the hostages. Lopez alone survived the massacre because he was being held in solitary confinement in another part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: A Make-Over for Stumbling Rebels | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

...biggest villains in the movie, however, are the media, especially local TV newscaster Wayne Satz, who early on reported the ghastliest accusations against the McMartins with sensationalistic relish. From talk-show hosts to newspaper reporters, the media avidly portrayed the McMartins as torturers. Even Ray Buckey's lawyer Danny Davis-played intriguingly by James Woods as part camera-ready opportunist, part righteous upholder of justice-presumed the McMartins guilty at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: CHRONICLE OF A WITCH HUNT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...bleached jawbone of barrier reefs and ragged mountains. Last week, as computers in Sydney and Canberra digested the raw data of Australia's 13th census in 178 years, it was clear that the ghastly blank was far from filled-and that for many a ruggedly individualistic cobber the ghastliest blank of all is a government census form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Filling in the Ghastly Blank | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...museum, the films, the reconstructions, she insists, and as her voice drones on in reiteration, the viewer is exposed to what well may be the ghastliest five minutes ever recorded on commercial film. The scene shifts rapidly from a shot of the Hiroshima museum, to some of the relics of the attack, to graphic sections of film taken in Hiroshima immediately after the bombing. Terrified men and women swim, in flame covered rivers; thousands of people, living and dead, huddle in makeshift hospital-shelters. Director Alain Resnais spares the viewer nothing--the camera methodically records all of the most gruesome...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Hiroshima Mon Amour | 9/27/1960 | See Source »

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