Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...young (he directed Adventures in Babysitting and wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes). "For this picture I was mostly inspired by old David Lean films," he says, "particularly Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, because they are told from a child's perspective. No one has shown the terror of being a child in an adult world better than Lean...
Just as the crackdown was reaching its peak last week, Amnesty International made public another indictment of the army's brutal rule. In a 72-page special report, the London-based human-rights organization accused Burma's junta of "silencing the democratic movement" with systematic terror and torture...
...1930s and '40s. But he was afflicted with physical ailments and marital woes. Trapped in Hollywood, he turned to morphine. John outdid them both. Peters theorizes that the Great Profile was "androgynous . . . To mask his vulnerability, he adopted a supermasculine pose: hard-drinking, profane, whoring, cynical. He lived in terror of being unmasked." Yet drunk or hung over -- which was most of the time -- John became a matinee idol, a superb comedian and the most celebrated Hamlet...
...pageant of regimented unity. But the observances this week seem likely to symbolize something very different -- where they are held at all. Officials in Moscow and Leningrad have criticized the traditional military parades as anachronistic wastes of money; parliamentarians in Latvia want rites honoring "victims of Communist terror"; authorities in Lvov in the western Ukraine resolved to ignore the anniversary altogether. Even after Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ordered Moscow and other cities to hold the parades, some local leaders called for counterdemonstrations as well. No one was sure whose orders would be followed...
...most of them female, are redressing the balance. Abandoning standard research techniques that emphasize impersonal inquiries, they engage women in long conversational dialogues exploring friendships, sexual desires, classroom experiences, racial identity, ideas of justice. What they are discovering is that women's psychological equilibrium depends on human connection. The terror for women is isolation. Psychiatrist Jean Baker Miller of Wellesley College's Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies and the author of a seminal 1976 book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, says, "Women's sense of self and of worth is grounded in the ability to make...