Word: asylums
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...minor works are high-voltage pictures in themselves. A savage chop of cross-hatching and rapid brush strokes give Van Gogh's watercolor foliage as much urgency as one done in a heavy oil impasto; the extravagantly translucent turquoise shadows of his barred window at the Saint-Remy asylum emphasize the manic oppressiveness of the room's yellow walls...
...agency kept its mouth shut. It had nothing to say -not even to the State Department -when the West German government revealed that Evgeny Evgenievich Runge, who held the high rank of lieutenant colonel in the KGB, had made contact with the CIA in West Berlin and asked for asylum. Apparently piqued that Bonn had broken the story, the CIA would not even tell Runge's age (39) or how many members of his family had accompanied him into exile (his wife and eight-year-old son). Nor would it admit the fact that Runge had been taken...
...plot of a movie. "Hey fellas," he probably said, "I got a great idea for the plot of a movie. We'll show this French town at the end of World War One that gets evacuated just as the Germans retreat. All except for the inmates of an insane asylum, who break out and take over the town, not knowing that the Germans have prepared time bombs to blow the whole place up in 24 hours...
...film is not without its good touches. The scene pictured above with Bates' presenting his credentials in formal application for admission to the lunatic asylum, is one. But the good scenes are few; the could-have-been-good ones are many...
...Pushed a resolution through his rubber-stamp National Assembly, effective July 1968, renouncing the international convention honoring political asylum...