Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play and the complete dialogue for a movie. But, as Jasen shows, that facility could be ruinous. At the beginning of World War II, Wodehouse was living in Le Touquet, where he was trapped by the German Occupation. He ended up a prisoner of war in a converted lunatic asylum. Here he composed Money in the Bank, all alone in his padded cell...
...poignant symbolism of last week's defection drama. In a stunning rebuff to Kremlin cultural politics, the son and grandson of the Soviet Union's most celebrated contemporary composer the late Dmitri Shostakovich, decided to join Rostropovich in exile and petition the U.S. State Department for asylum...
...Passenger Hendrik Seisen, 34, recalled later. The five skyjackers were identified as members of the Komando Jihad, or Holy War Command, a shadowy group of Muslim extremists dedicated to Iran-style Islamic revolution in Indonesia. Nervously brandishing machine guns, grenades and dynamite, they demanded $1.5 million in ransom and asylum for themselves and the 80 militants imprisoned by the government of Indonesian President Suharto...
...Syrians were left to pick up the pieces. They accepted the Pakistani prisoners, put them up temporarily in the Damascus airport hotel and granted them "asylum." Syrian authorities seemed less certain what to call the disposition of the hijackers. A government spokesman said they were not being granted formal political asylum but rather, temporary refuge for "humanitarian" reasons. In light of Syria's past habit of letting hijackers disappear, neither prosecution of the threesome nor their return to Pakistan seemed likely...
...dream that can still seize the world's imagination on a screen. And it is not a new dream. In 1919, when D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks deserted the studios to form United Artists, one executive declared: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." That wasn't - and isn't - a bad thing. To make films, it helps to be cost-conscious. But to make a difference, you've got to be a little movie...