Word: asylums
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...Retreating Germans plant a time bomb in a town square, preparing to explode it at midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...
...troops are composed entirely of vaudeville krauts and British louts whose follies have been chronicled in a thousand previous service comedies. In a conclusion telegraphed from the beginning, Bates, who has miraculously saved the town from destruction, sheds his army uniform, and appears naked at the gate of the asylum. The timeworn moral: the inanities of lunatics are preferable to the insanities of armies...
...losing battle with Egyptian terrorists. He picked up another $28 million from Kuwait, and $20 million more from "private individuals"-half of that amount, a $10 million interest-free "loan" from Saudi Arabia's ex-King Saud, as part of the political rent he pays for his Egyptian asylum...
...quitting college to elope with a girl to Europe. Father and son quarreled. The violence that churned in Lowell's poetry burst out, and he knocked his father to the floor. As Commander Lowell saw it, his crazed son would have to be packed off to an asylum, but family friends convinced him that his poet son needed not so much the company of keepers as that of other poets-specifically, those living in Tennessee...
...Simple Matter. Early last week Radványi called his office to say that he planned to take a few days off. Next he called "American authorities"-most likely his old friend Dean Rusk-to ask asylum for himself, his wife Julianna and their son János, 15. When his housekeeper, a watchdog assigned by Budapest, returned to the Radványis' house at 2838 Arizona Avenue, N.W., from a shopping trip the following afternoon, the three occupants had disappeared with their possessions and left no forwarding address (they went to a suburban hideout). Forty-five minutes later...