Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things: "The film maker's utter lack of pretension, and his silver-haired, craggy good looks. He has the kind of face that centuries ago was stamped on coins." That face would not have been out of place in a David Lean movie, say Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago. Or, for that matter, this season's hit, A Passage to India. But Worrell soon learned that it would not be easy to get to the man behind the face. "Drawing Lean out was like pulling water from a very deep well," she says. "I was at such...
...idle shot, something that survives to the final cut merely because it is striking in its beauty or novel in its impact. Particularly in the Lean films that people conveniently but mistakenly identify as "epics" or "spectacles"?movies like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago?the largest weight of his meaning is carried not by dialogue but by images, and by his manner of juxtaposing them in the editing...
Verena Greig El Khobar, Saudi Arabia...
Ever since fighting broke out between Iran and Iraq more than four years ago, six countries on the Persian Gulf-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates-have been concerned about the potential threat the war poses to their oil interests. The heads of those nations, which formed the Gulf Cooperation Council in 1981, met last week to take out a sort of insurance policy against any damaging spillover from the war. After a three-day meeting in Kuwait's palatial conference hall, built especially for this summit, the leaders announced plans for the creation...
...been murdered. The pictures were sent to Gaddafi, who immediately took credit for the apparent crime. According to Mubarak, the four gunmen-two of whom were English-revealed details of a Libyan hit list. On it were such leaders as Mitterrand, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and India's late Indira Gandhi...