On the big screen, meanwhile, every time you see a gang walking along in slow-motion, a speeded-up party scene, a slow pan out from a closeup of a face, a torture scene set to cheerful music, the chances are it was plundered from Kubrick's original.
As Tongeren prospered over the centuries, it was plundered by Franks, Attila's Huns, Normans, Brabanters, and the French clearly the place for booty, I figure.
Its fortunes declined thereafter, as it was plundered during the Thirty Years' War, devastated by two great conflagrations (1679, 1737), and further battered by the Napoleonic wars.
It is plunder plain and simple.
It was plundered again in 1194, by which time it was almost totally destroyed.
During the American Revolution it was plundered by British troops under Major General William Tryon.
It was plundered by Muslims in the 12th and 15th centuries.
Puerto Rico was further ravaged by disease, and it was plundered by French, British, and Dutch pirates.
And it was plundered in World War II, when the Nazis occupied the city.
It was plundered for short stories, but abandoned as a suitable first novel.
