It is almost a year to the day since a catastrophic earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, killing 230,000 people and wrecking over 330,000 homes.
Then in January 2001 a magnitude seven earthquake struck, devastating a huge area, flattening cities including the district capital, Bhuj, and wrecking over 8,000 villages.
What emerged was the most vigorous late-20th-century figurative style: a vocabulary of gross body parts, eyeballs, hairy bollocks, fag ends, hobnail boots, dustbin lids, piled up, painted raw, thick, fatty, wrecked; hang-over pictures, heart-attack pictures, a savage farce with a delicate wit.
That spontaneity shows; the producers may have changed aspects of the story and wrecked the movie's over-all rhythms, but Fuller's image-making has a passionate energy to match anything he had ever done in Hollywood.
There are horror stories about people who have lost their jobs and wrecked their marriages over the game, but, as far as I know, they're just rumors.
The podium of the Schleck brothers and winner Cadel Evans will be back for sure, as will others such as Alberto Contador, who has left Paris swearing he will never again repeat the Giro d'Italia-Tour double that partly wrecked his chances over the last three weeks.
Perhaps people will even be happy with a federalist system, who knows?" At the small Govan Cross shopping centre, where Barbour's statue may soon stand, James Mackay, a retired bank worker, is running errands for a disabled friend who, he said, had been "wrecked" by worries over the bedroom tax and welfare cuts.
8. Electron / Richard Jones – Aussie kid who wrecked havoc all over the world with nothing more than a modem.
Then a jet flew over, wrecking the cliché.
But suffice it to say that the U.S. has taken a wrecking ball to Central America, over and over again.
