Word: horror
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...Epatha Merkerson as Berniece and Lou Myers as the dissolute uncle Wining Boy, who leads family members in musical interludes that include a haunting, African-influenced chant. Director Lloyd Richards needs to tinker with the ending, a sort of exorcism in which a sudden shift from farce to horror does not quite work. But already the musical instrument of the title is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
Despite such horror stories, teens deny that the dangers apply to them. Willix recalls that after one session in which he warned students to avoid the drugs, two 15-year-olds came up and said, "We hear what you're saying about steroids, but could you tell us which ones to use?" Rick of Los Angeles takes 40 mg of the chemicals daily, but insists, "I'm being careful. I'm taking what I think a doctor would prescribe." Has he seen one? "I will when...
...America's population grows older, such highway horror stories are becoming more common. Currently 12% of the population is 65 or older, a figure expected to reach 17% in the next 40 years. While dangerous drivers come in all ages -- the most menacing, in fact, are still the youngest -- there is a growing nationwide effort to ensure that older people with licenses either drive safely or get off the road...
...horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right. When Nigerian forces closed in on the hospital where Kouchner was working, the doctors asked to evacuate their patients. The Red Cross ordered them to stay on the grounds that they would be safer in a hospital under the Geneva Conventions. As the troops drew near, many patients bolted into the forest. "It was unbelievable," recalls Kouchner, who is now France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action. "Some of them were | carrying their own plasma bags. Others had been operated on, and their intestines were hanging...
Wasn't that a time? Each year of the early 1960s brought new images of heroism and horror as the civil rights movement spread through the South like kudzu. 1960: four Negro students sit in at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter. 1961: the Congress of Racial Equality inaugurates its Freedom Rides to integrate Southern bus terminals. 1962: in Oxford, Miss., James Meredith enters Ole Miss, its first black student since Reconstruction...