Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...
...noise was like thunder," recalled Tito Garcia Mendez, 60, who was riding the city's sleek subway, one of the capital's brightest successes. "All the lights went out. People began screaming. I felt dizzy. I thought it was because I was hungry." Fernando Levaro, 21, a medical student, was driving to an early class. "My car began swinging from one side of the road to the other. I could see lampposts and buildings swaying. People began to run, but they didn't know where to go. It was terrible." Arturo Cholula, 40, was getting dressed...
...much as he did. "We ought to declare victory," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar. "Not for our bill but for a unified policy toward South Africa." Many Democrats, on the other hand, were not happy at the thought that a Republican $ President had stolen their thunder and fought to continue the confrontation. Some complained that Reagan's measure failed to include a proposal to put South Africa on notice that the U.S. will impose even stronger sanctions if Preto- ria refuses to work toward re- form. Scoffed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The President did a somersault...
...game, Murder, She Wrote. Traditionally, notes Tinker, "people go to CBS for 60 Minutes, and many of them just sit there all night long, through some rather indifferent programming. With Amazing Stories we're asking them to get up and change that dial. And if we do hear the thunder of dials across the land, the whole face of Sunday night will change, because maybe they won't come back to CBS." NBC is spending about $800,000 per half hour--twice the budget of an ordinary show--and has committed to 44 episodes, or two years on the schedule...
...book's subtitle, A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor, is a trifle deceptive, calling up images of Robert Mitchum tooling down Thunder Road. Bunting is no stranger to gunplay and squealing tires. He once got so entangled in an electrified fence, a colleague remembers, that "each of his fingers had lightning bolts shooting out of them." But the struggle that really interests Bunting involves an almost courtly game of wits between him and the various owners of illegal stills...