Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice place, once quit, becomes an Eden. As the years slide by, the places we have visited are steadily pushed back to an enchanted distance, and memory, the mind's great cosmetician, begins to remove wrinkles, soften edges, touch up the past in a golden glow. The 26-hour bus trip, the simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into the unforgettable adventures with which we can impress our friends. Paradise's loss is our gain. Small wonder that Proust, great poet laureate of reminiscence, wrote, "Les vrais paradis...
...ugliest incidents in Israel's decades-long war against terrorism: in 1984, two Palestinians captured by Israeli forces after they had hijacked a bus died in custody, under circumstances that have yet to be explained. Last week those deaths had embroiled the Jerusalem government in an increasingly bitter controversy that included charges of a cover-up. The struggle involved a test of wills between Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir, who wants an investigation of the chief of Shin Bet, the Hebrew acronym for Israel's general security service, which is primarily responsible for domestic antiterrorism...
...involved when three disaffected senior officials of Shin Bet came to him with evidence that the agency director, Avraham Shalom, whose name first became public last week when it was published abroad, had covered up Shin Bet's involvement in the death of two Palestinians who had commandeered a bus south of Tel Aviv in April 1984. The two terrorists were photographed being led away from the bus alive but later turned up dead, after being severely beaten. Two of their companions were killed in the assault on the bus, along with a female Israeli soldier...
...gobs of children cavorting in a playground sea of plastic orange balls or in UFO H20, a humorous collection of splashing fountains made to look like alien space objects. The Land Plaza, with everything from a Singapore trishaw and a Philippine jeepney to a Hong Kong double-decker bus, provides comparable delights. Children, and more than a few adults, climb all over the extravagantly colored vehicles and honk their horns as if they had never heard such sounds before...
...Bountiful, a film in which the redoubtable Geraldine Page, who won an Oscar for it this spring, does the bravura acting. Page is an old woman who wants to see her hometown before she dies. De Mornay plays the wife of a soldier, who meets Page in a bus station. She sits primly with her handbag in her lap and leaves the big, round gestures to Page. The contrast is expert moviemaking...