Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Directed by Pat O'Connor; Screenplay by Bernard Mac Laverty
...this is a conscious choice on the part of Writer Bernard Mac Laverty, adapting his own novel, Director Pat O'Connor, whose first feature this is, and their exemplary actors. This, they are saying, is the sound of repression. They are also saying that when terror establishes itself as a habit, it passes beyond the power of reason to understand it or words to explain it. In the world they place before us, action is no longer character. Numbness...
...safe, so pleasurable, and, literally, so irresponsible. It is a walk on the wild side, but a walking tour only; a desire to see and feel and even judge, and then leave. To stay-i.e., to be serious-is to miss the point. "A perpetual holiday," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a good working definition of hell." Getting home isn't half the fun. It's all of it. -By Charles Krauthammer
...terrorist act occurred on Thursday when a bomb, concealed in a suitcase, exploded at Meenambakham International Airport in Madras, India, killing at least 29 people and destroying the customs area. Madras airport authorities, accustomed to frequent bomb hoaxes, had tragically ignored three telephoned warnings. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Miami and Thomas A. Sancton/Paris
Initial reactions to Fabius' appointment were mixed. Said Bernard Pons, secretary-general of the neo-Gaullist party: "The Communists have just said today, down to the last comma, what we have been repeating for three years: the government's economic and industrial policy is a failure." But in a backhanded compliment to Fabius, Republican Party Leader François Leotard noted that Mitterrand had chosen "one of the best. We must not underestimate our adversary...