Word: thunderbolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phaethon at the moment the overweening hero is struck down by Jupiter's wrathful thunderbolt. On it, Michelangelo wrote...
...revolutionary government must I act like a thunderbolt," wrote Maximilien Robespierre, the acknowledged chief of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. Throughout history, revolution has al most always been followed by a period of vengeance and terror in the name of justice. The American Revolution was a notable exception. But by comparison with the mass bloodshed that followed the French and Russian revolutions, not to mention Mao Tse-tung's conquest of China, the summary actions of Iran's new Islamic Revolutionary Court might even be considered restrained...
Cimino, 37, broke into movies as a writer for Clint Eastwood. After directing the promising Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, he spent four years on various scripts before joining forces with De Niro on The Deer Hunter. Here Cimino creates a portrait of the war that beggars logic and is boundless in terror. An early Viet Nam sequence, in which imprisoned Americans are forced to play Russian roulette by their Viet Cong captors, is one of the most gut-wrenching ever. With Peter Zinner's virtuoso editing, an agonizing sound track and Vilmos Zsigmond's fiery cinematography, Cimino creates...
...Riverside Park in Agawam, Mass., the main attraction was the Kennedy clan. Paterfamilias Ted braved the Thunderbolt roller coaster with Teddy Jr., 15, sailed through the "Music Express" with Kara, 17, and happily bumped minicars with Patrick, 10. The occasion: a three-day family outing in western Massachusetts. Besides his own brood of three, Ted took along seven of their cousins. The agenda included canoeing, visiting a wildlife sanctuary and, of course, sleeping under the stars. The Kennedys also visited the home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield, and caught the Linda Ronstadt concert at Tanglewood, where they were joined...
...sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much later became a driver and bodyguard for J.B. Stoner, of Savannah, Ga., a racist who publishes the National States Rights Party's ultra right-wing Thunderbolt magazine. The implication is that King's murder was some kind of far-right conspiracy...