Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Popular support for the guerrillas appears to be holding fast. "The Russians have found that it is not just a bunch of mujahedin they are fighting, it is the nation as a whole," says Khalili. "They found that all Afghans are really mujahedin, whether it is a seven-year-old child who gives information about the enemy or an old man of 70 who gives us a piece of bread...
...Peckinpah Memorial Prize, named after the late, occasionally great director (The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country), is awarded -- on an erratic basis, naturally -- to filmmakers whose works include the following elements...
...winner is . . . Walter Hill (once a Peckinpah writer) for Extreme Prejudice, which stars Nick Nolte as a modern-day Texas Ranger; Powers Boothe as his old buddy, now a master dope smuggler and chatty amoralist; Maria Conchita Alonso as the woman they both love; and a wild bunch from the CIA or somewhere. Their task is to supply the movie with a little mystery and a lot of obscurantist firepower, enough to drown out conventional logic's objections to a vast silliness...
Together we looked down at the crowd. Someone released a bunch of brightly colored balloons, which floated amidst the cries of joy and celebration like the dream of youth. I looked Mike in the eye and raised my cup. "Sometimes, my friend," I declared, "You just have to say, 'Fuck...
From the moment of his intensely dramatic entrance--bounding through the Library's window--to the bitter end, Thornley delivers the play's best performance and has the only credible British accent of the bunch. Thornley holds his own against the many professional actors with whom Christie fans are sure to be familiar. He brilliantly interrogates the other characters in the play's many drawing room scenes...