Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This mail, however, was not intended for prompt delivery to any bank. An alert police officer in the suburb of Carrollton spotted one such sign at a local bank, and after a search, another was found. Officers patiently staked out one of the sites. There they arrested Joe Ben Hunsaker III just after he had loaded one of the mailboxes into a pickup truck and was taking down an OUT OF ORDER sign. Alleging that he had used the innovative scam to steal $10,000 since early August, Postal inspectors said they would charge him with theft of the mailboxes...
...life if he dared serve on such a delegation without at least tacit P.L.O. approval, Israel continues to insist that it will never agree to contacts with "terrorist organizations." "It is now clear to us that this is to be a Palestinian delegation appointed by the P.L.O.," said Yossi Ben-Aharon, director of the Prime Minister's office...
...Cliff's only connection to Judah -- until the concluding sequence of this thematically unified but somewhat bifurcated movie -- is through Ben, another rabbi (Sam Waterston), who is one of Cliff's brothers-in-law. The rabbi is Judah's patient, and his eye trouble is quite literal; by the end of the movie he has gone blind. But this blindness is also symbolic. By visiting this affliction on the only character in his movie who has remained close to God, Allen is suggesting that if the Deity himself is not dead, then he must be suffering from severely impaired vision...
...Ben Mezrich...
...that the best thing about A Dry White Season is that it does not practice unconscious apartheid. Our attention may be focused on the political education of Ben du Toit, but the Ngubene family is well particularized and their torments set forth unblinkingly, not to say horrifically. And Ben is provided with a guide to the realities of life on the other side of the color line: the tough, suspicious, ultimately compassionate taxi driver named Stanley (Zakes Mokae). He is a man who turns up in surprising places in unpredictable moods. He provides the bestartlements that shake Du Toit...