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...October 24, 1985, Miroslaw Medved jumped into the Mississippi River from a Soviet freighter and swam frantically, seeking asylum. For screw up number one, enter the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS, at its bureaucratic best, returned Medved, who was kicking and screaming, to his ship, clearly against his will...
...performance of the season. Kurtz barks and mewls like a dog, she wanders vacant-eyed like Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, she throws things and lapses into catatonia, all the while comprehending everything that goes on except how to avoid being packed off to the asylum of the title. She too has yearned for celebrity. In what seems a metaphor for the state of all the characters, she can hardly get herself noticed in her own home. W.A.H...
...products they market. Time for a change, he figures; time to renounce the world and search for purity in the woods with Honey Barbara (Helen Jones), an aggressively free spirit who keeps bees and thrives on their honey. But the world renounces Harry first, exiling him to an asylum for the terminally idealistic...
JACKSON BROWNE: Lives in the Balance (Asylum). Wherein the singer-songwriter does a little housecleaning in his many roomed conscience. The first song, For America, is a deliberate, even self-mocking evocation of a signature Browne anthem, For Everyman, just as the last cut, Black and White, is at once a warning and a sign toward a new direction. "Time running out time running out/ For the fool still asking what his life is about," he sings, and since no one is better at lyrical rock introspection, it is plain that Browne has set himself a new course. This album...
...many years "our S.O.B.s" in the fight against the Evil Empire. But, more important, it would send the wrong message to other despots the U.S. might one day like to spirit out on the first transport out of town. With the assurance of safe passage out of Manila and asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these men out in the cold,it would make it tough in the future to get other miscreant leaders to abdicate without trying to hang on until the bitter, bloody...