Word: horror
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...Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with the sickening image of a sinking trawler...
...imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...
...turned up some 20 bodies, saw sights that left him in deep depression from delayed shock the following year. Still vivid to him were the two girls he found in a field still strapped into their seats. "They were clasped tightly together, their fingers crossed, and a look of horror on their faces," he says. Like others in Lockerbie, Parr muses that al-Megrahi must be "a small cog in a big wheel," but he is equally proud of the Scottish justice system and what he sees as a fair trial. He feels it is time to move...
...comprehend the full horror AIDS has visited on Africa, listen to the woman we have dubbed Laetitia Hambahlane in Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure...
...room and residence. The finished product will be screened at Clinton's yet to be constructed presidential library. "Here I am, I've made some of the most horrific films, and now I'm in the White House," said a stunned Craven, whose self-deprecation presumably referred to his horror oeuvre and not his recent Music of the Heart, a Clinton favorite. In addition to the tour, Craven got Clinton to recall meetings with world leaders and share some favorite personal memories. Good luck with the ratings board...