Assassinations, war, riots.
Or, if there was just one, he often couldn't enter Rome, for fear of war, riots, plague, or assassination.
You, however, have a way of creating undertones and overtones of comedy, as though you are always about to burst out laughing, when you write a scene, even if the scene includes suicide, war, riots or lost love.
His last book, "1968" (2009), is a retrospective on that tumultuous year, taking in the Vietnam war, riots in New York, Paris, Prague, Chicago and Mexico City, and the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
There are infants switched at birth — one rich, one poor — revelations about parenthood, amnesia, war, riots, sudden shifts in fortune and, most satisfyingly, a kind of mother-son reunion between Saleem and his ayah that would do a Bombay talkie proud.
These were turbulent times, involving war, riots, rick-burning, the assassination of Spencer Perceval and the destruction of the Houses of Parliament by fire (in which Cobbett rejoiced - "a great event" he called it), and packing all this into 300 pages must have been a struggle.
If you airlifted a stack of techno equipment into South Central LA, spent a year training disenfranchised shortys and then initiated a full-on race war riot, you'd have a Kid606 track.
It was the year of anti-war riots.
From 1975 to 1979, he roamed Africa, covering wars, riots and liberation movements.
For the most part those sources document wars, riots, protests and other scenes of social unrest: historical and contemporary, fleeting and continuing, effective and not.
Meanwhile, their sources document wars, riots, protests and other scenes of social unrest: historical and contemporary, fleeting and continuing, effective and not.
