Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good side of Iran's revolutionary regime. President Mitterrand was one of the few Western leaders to send congratulations to Iran after the July 24 election of Mohammed Ali Raja'i as the country's latest Islamic President. But France, the country that provided political asylum for four months to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and for years to some of his closest aides, two weeks ago gave haven to Raja'i's predecessor, the ousted Abolhassan Banisadr, and to one of the Iranian Islamic regime's most dangerous foes, Massoud Rajavi, head of the leftist...
...Iranian government has insisted that the French return Banisadr and Rajavi, a demand that the French, with their tradition of granting political asylum, will not accept. Last week Banisadr declared that he might go to Sweden or Austria to continue his anti-Khomeini campaign. Swedish officials quickly denied having any contact with the exiled politician. Sweden has nationals of its own in Iran...
...superpremium made with the best cream, fresh fruit, chocolate and liqueurs (a fine French vanilla assays out at 3% egg yolks, twice the minimum specified by the U.S. Government for ice cream that is labeled French), but it contains a great deal more of these ingredients. A gallon of asylum-grade supermarket chocolate ripple weighs about 4½ lbs., and a gallon of Ben & Jerry's ineffable Heath bar or knee-weakening black raspberry weighs 6½ lbs. Haagen-Dazs rum raisin, flavored with fresh-plucked umlauts, weighs about 8 lbs. Not much...
...cool (steamy hot, really), as he and young Ms. Shields make love at every opportunity. But sin never goes unpunished; halfway through the film, our stud almost dies in a house fire, and as the final credits roll he is confined, for the second time, to an insane asylum...
Growing light reveals a bleak gray back wall and a spectral frieze of figures who may be inmates of a prison or an asylum. Later they will coalesce into a band of Greek Furies or chalk-faced exorcists, hissing and poking little white crosses at the unrepentant libertine Don Juan (John Seitz). At times, blistering white light rakes the audience as if the entire universe of man merited a third-degree grilling...