Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cruz, spins out in cartoons, photographs and cryptic dialogue what many Mexicans are talking about these days: the arrest of 20 young Mexican revolutionaries who traveled to North Korea for guerrilla training and returned home to cause the severest strain in Mexican-Soviet relations since Leon Trotsky sought asylum in Mexico...
...married sister Ceil (Nancy Marchand) is a cool and predatory school superintendent who seems to have frozen into her post. Anna has been involved in some vague sexual incident with a boy at her school, and Ceil has shown up with the papers to have her committed to an asylum. Catherine and Ceil spar on the subject, and the strange life they led with their divorced mother is dredged up, but nothing changes substantially. What should be show-and-tell is mostly tell-and-tell...
...cuter killer exists than Salem (Max von Sydow), doomed to spend his life in a lunatic asylum. Framed for a homicide he did not commit, Salem becomes as vengeful as Dracula. Alone, he contrives to exit his maximum-security cell clothed only in socks, shoes, T shirt and briefs-in the dead of winter. With unrefined malice, he dispatches the framers, among them his sister (Liv Ullman), his mistress and a lawyer. Some are garroted, others drugged or axed to death. Then Salem undoes his escape, hustles back through the snow, ascends a stone wall just slightly less perilous than...
Political Persecution. Mardian's attitudes are deeply rooted. His father, Samuel, because of his ardent Armenian nationalism, spent four years in a Turkish dungeon. Once he was granted political asylum in the U.S., Samuel started a construction business in Pasadena. Three sons, Aaron, Dan and Samuel, eventually moved to Phoenix, where the construction firm prospered, and they became close friends and supporters of Barry Goldwater...
...fact that the crime literally never got off the ground underlined the harshness of the verdicts. According to official Soviet accounts, the defendants plotted to commandeer a single-engine AN2 in Leningrad last June 15, fly it to the Swedish town of Boden and ask for asylum in Israel. Many Sovietologists suspect that the eleven walked into a trap prepared by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. For one thing, they were arrested before they even set foot aboard the plane. Within an hour after their arrest, 40 Jewish homes from Riga to distant Kharkov were ransacked by policemen with...