Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Long-hidden cave discovered in 1940, whose walls are covered with...
...investigation began after authorities in Cartagena, Colombia, seized 386 kg of cocaine hidden inside containers of frozen fish shipped by a company with a distribution center in Atlanta. Drug agents subsequently opened their phony office and offered to launder funds for suspected traffickers. As it played out, agents picked up drug funds in gym bags, luggage and boxes on the streets of such cities as New York, Dallas, Madrid and Rome. Then, with the help of black-market money changers in Colombia, the dollars were converted into pesos and deposited into the traffickers' Colombian accounts. But much to the dismay...
After his first address on the banking crisis, in which he explained to families why it was safer to return their money to the banks rather than keep it hidden at home, large deposits began flowing back into the banking system. When he asked everyone to spread a map before them in preparation for a fireside chat on the war in the Pacific, map stores sold more maps in a span of days than they had in an entire year. When he announced a rubber shortage that Americans could help fill, millions of householders, delighted at the call for service...
Screen time is different from novel time, and it takes a lot of it for Ishmael to rediscover his "good heart" and bring forth the hidden truth that will free the accused. While he dawdles and moons, the wind starts to whistle through the story's riggings and we begin to suspect that there was always less in it than met an eye distracted by Guterson's fancy writing...
...face hidden by a paper-bag helmet, plays an improvised war game with toy soldiers on his kitchen table. An explosion startles him, the room bursts into flames, and a giant totes him out of the late 20th century and into 1st century Rome. Hence, the action will take place in both ages. Imperial warriors, caked with the dust of conquest, tramp through the Coliseum like bulky action figures. Their leader Titus (Hopkins) is a straight-spoken military man of the past; his rival, the emperor Saturninus (Cumming), is pure oil of modern politician, oozing endearments and threats, riding through...