One spoke of the "overwhelming terror" he had experienced; another spoke of the "great fright" he and his wife and child had felt in their third-floor apartment.
"It may be another spoke in the wheel," said Richard J. Peterson, a strategist for Thomson Financial Securities Data.
"In the scheme of this exploitation, the film and myself as a filmmaker can be seen as another spoke in the wheel of this exploitation," Mr. Bate said.
During the congressional debate on the bill, one representative referred to homosexuality as "inherently destructive"; another spoke of "hedonism, narcissism, depravity... and sin".
For two hours, one man after another spoke, urging the workers to fight, but also counseling "caution and deliberation," wrote David Von Drehle in "Triangle: The Fire that Changed America," his acclaimed history of the period.
One child after another spoke of injuries and deaths caused by shelling; of lingering wounds; of forced conscription by the Tigers; of poor widowed mothers; and of family members missing after being taken into state custody.
