Word: hides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Together they set out to find the perpetrator of her rape, staying out past curfew, midnight, in hopes of shooting the military official. Vera and Torre must hide in bushes from the armored patrol cars that roam the streets with a license to kill anything that moves, and in the process they revive their relationship of years before. They also discuss the inner conflicts--Torre torn between her aristocratic heritage and her love for her people, and Vera confused between his distance from Chile and his desire to help...
...crops are plainly scraggly. But the patchwork of greens and golds still reels by under jet wings heading west. The great shoulders of the Rockies have some snow on them still. It takes a closer inspection and a conditioned eye for full understanding. The trees of Minneapolis hide devastated home lawns and gardens. Out West, dry-weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields of wheat, corn and soybeans that took root much earlier on slight rains, then simply stopped developing. They hover now between life and death...
...minimal white cotton tentacle costumes were cast as a school of squid. The school's role was to appear to be a large underwater mass and thus discourage the bad-guy shark. This is apparently one of the squid's classic defensive tactics, as is shooting its ink to hide itself...
...than glasnost on his mind. The Nome real estate broker hopes to make Siberia a major tourist attraction, with regularly scheduled air shuttles and even a cruise ship. But Provideniya in the Soviet Far East has drawbacks: it has no hotel and only one restaurant. Cement mixing and reindeer-hide tanning are its major enterprises. The architecture runs to concrete boxes. Then there is the climate: only Eskimos may consider 30 degrees F in June balmy...
...investigation of a buyer; gun smugglers send ordinary-looking shoppers, often women, from gun shop to gun shop, acquiring a weapon at each stop. Within a day, ATF has found, the firearms can turn up in such cities as New York and Washington. Texas retailers have nothing to hide. Says Richard L. Garner of the Dallas ATF office: "In most cases, we find the dealers are operating legally...