Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Kohl did his best to turn the incident to his advantage. "If you want to see the result of 40 years of communist rule," he said, "just look at these hooligans with blind rage in their faces. A vote for the Communists is a vote for violence and state terror...
...dyad across which war might break out." In other words, if nations are going to square off against one another, better they do so along a single, well-defined, well- fortified line that everyone knows not to cross. With a balance of power has come a balance of terror. War can be averted by that saving grace of the nuclear age, mutual deterrence...
...HOLY TERROR: ANDY WARHOL CLOSE UP by Bob Colacello...
...Holy Terror is something of a get-even book. Colacello spends an obligatory few words professing initial affection for his benefactor, but he is soon disillusioned by Warhol's "bad skin, bad teeth, bad hair" and all the work Colacello has to do, ghostwriting Warhol's books, selling ads, even doing Warhol's social climbing for him when he is too tired to go out at night. Editing is too kind a word for Colacello's job at Interview, which included cozying up to advertisers and selling expensive Warhol celebrity portraits, for which Colacello would earn a fee (about...
...most fans the formal rationale for the commissioner's decision was as irrelevant as the details of the government's tax case against Al Capone. What mattered was that Steinbrenner's 17-season reign of terror was finally over, and the Yankees were liberated from the egomaniacal whirl of managerial musical chairs, maladroit trades and the public castigation of star players and pitching coaches alike...