The escapees described the North Korea that foreigners never saw as a wasteland, its factories shuttered, its tractors and trucks running on wood-burning steam engines, its once efficient food-rationing system defunct, whole villages standing empty — mass graves here, bodies lying uncollected there, and scavenging bands of skeletal orphans roving everywhere, gnawing on bark and leaves.
Perhaps it was always so, underneath all the swagger — not a city, but a country village, standing silent and still in the frigid night.
"This village standing still in time, the isolation and ethnocentricity of the German minority over 300 years, that doesn't disappear just because a large part of this population was deported".
The deal would never have been reached if Sleepy Hollow had not exercised its buyout clause, a clear case of "a little village standing up to a giant corporation," said Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky.
Instead of a patriotic spectacle, Mr. Godina turned in an epic study in sexual frustration, contrasting lines of soldiers swarming across the countryside with group shots of female factory workers from a nearby village, standing by in boredom and bemusement as the men conduct their silly games.
The VSSC is one of the village standing committees in Tanzania responsible for health, education and water management issues at a village level.
If you head toward the Jaraguá peak, up Via Anhangüera, the highway named to commemorate notorious "Old Devil" conquistadors who threatened to burn down rivers if the indigenous people didn't reveal where their gold mines were, you'll eventually find a Guarani village standing right in São Paulo's concrete jungle.
Unsurprisingly, there's been a lot of opposition to the plans, notably in Pungeşti – a small village standing directly in the way of Chevron's shale gas enterprise, which, last year, hosted 600 farmers forming a human chain in a bid to stop the company's bulldozers from destroying their land. .
He had worked side by side with village farmers, standing bare-legged in icy water for hours, scooping out silt for fertilizer.
The biggest cliché in the village was standing on the balcony of this house, already thinking over the superior, vaguely self-inflating blog implying that his view of France was just that bit more nuanced than the norm.
It was filmed in 1960 as creepy horror Village of the Damned (tagline: "Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world"), with Hertfordshire's Letchmore Heath, where pretty houses are clustered around the village pond, standing in for spooky Midwich.
