Now, with Coca-Cola, Don has built his masterpiece, a fantasy of American innocence, of a world purged of the late sixties, one that erases the painful aftermath of the civil-rights movement and Vietnam and violent assassinations.
They suffer violent attacks, assassinations and a desperately high suicide rate, particularly among adolescents.
At one point in the hearing, Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the normally even-tempered Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, angrily reminded his colleagues that he had been designated as a target for violent attacks, even assassination, on a Web site run by abortion opponents who later declared bankruptcy to avoid paying court judgments.
Assassinations, violent protests and soldiers fighting in faraway places became part of our daily lives.
Though most Nigerians strongly disapprove of their violent methods — bombings, assassinations, bank robberies, and prison break-ins — some sympathize with their criticisms of the state.
Preparations are underway despite the constant violent attacks, political assassinations, and threats of debilitating protests from the state teachers union.
Study after study have shown the there is no increase in episodes of madness, disasters, traffic accidents, emergency calls, assassinations, violent crime, sleepwalking, births, suicides, homicides, arson, epilepsy, or werewolf sightings associated with the moon phases.
This situation resulted in a series of violent incidents including assassinations and reprisal killings which culminated in the deaths of 11 civilians and the wounding of 50 others in street battles in the northern town of Oshakati just before the election".
He said his grandfather rejected the idea, fearing that such a film would, like "Hoffa," focus on violent episodes, like an assassination attempt on Walter's life — a shooting that left Victor with a glass eye — and confrontations like the one with the Ford thugs that came to be known as the Battle of the Overpass.
Tension had also been running high ahead of polling day because of a number of violent incidents, including the assassination of an opposition leader during a campaign rally last month.
