Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Wagner's excellent performance are some of the visual montages and images interspersed with the dialogue. Depictions of the bayou itself are rich and surprisingly colorful, as is the airstrip where Henry and Joey occasionally meet to discuss their eel-trapping. Dream sequences in which Joey attempts to come to terms both with his new vocation and the "creature" that’s living inside their bedroom wall are filmed in wonderful blues and reds which fade into and out of one another as he traverses the line between sleep and consciousness. Additionally, some of the symbolism inherent...
...release for fear his death in custody would prompt even more Hamas-sponsored carnage. Others have worried that Yassin was too dangerous to go free. They had prevailed until the early hours of last Wednesday, when Yassin was transported secretly by ambulance from an Israeli prison hospital to an airstrip in Tel Aviv. From there a Jordanian royal helicopter flew him to the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman. At 4 a.m. the Israeli army, citing his poor health, announced that Yassin had been pardoned...
There were other crises. Hesselink had just taken off at sunset from the small airstrip at Nimne, not far from Duar, when he got a radio call from Seaman asking him to return and pick up a woman having complications in childbirth. "I told her it was crazy. It was too late. We would crash," says Hesselink. "She made me do it anyway." After picking up the woman and Seaman in Nimne, Hesselink flew in the dark to Ler, where there was better equipment. As the plane approached the field, the Nuer lit fires along the runway. After being treated...
...really the work with patients that captures her. This summer she set up a camp in Manajang, Sudan, where the airstrip was so overgrown that the pilot was terrified of landing. In control once again, she seemed back in her element. There was no one to hold her back from healing the sick. On a recent night at around 10, a loud, flailing sound erupted outside Seaman's tent. A mother was desperately trying to revive her eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother...
...aniseed that is about as potent as whiskey). At 12:30 Paul said his farewells, telling Garrec that he had to meet Diana and Dodi at Le Bourget airport, where their private jet would touch down from Sardinia at 3:15 p.m. When Paul wheeled up to the private airstrip, he found something else that had become usual, the waiting paparazzi. At this time, Paul was behind the wheel of the black Range Rover that carried the couple's luggage. He followed a Mercedes 600 driven by Dodi's regular chauffeur Philippe Dourneau. The two-car convoy was dogged...