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...with the dual aim of destroying shelters and burying victims in the rubble. On the main street running through Shatila, a demolished house is a tangle of rusting steel supports. Remnants of clothing are caught in the twisted red bars, so that the rubble looks like a nightmarish clothes closet. The second story of another house is exposed where a wall was ripped away. On the upper floor a drinking glass still sits on a ledge above a washbasin, exactly where it was left on that fateful Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Cannot Think Too Much: Palestinian Refugee Camps Sabra and Shatila | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...fire did not spread beyond the front door and closet of the large single room and the flames were...

Author: By Farah J. Griffin, | Title: Fire Rages Briefly in Adams House Rooms; Six Engines Extinguish Blaze in Half Hour | 1/28/1983 | See Source »

...closet, which contained an old coat and some suitcases, was completely burned out. The walls of the room were damaged by the sprinkler system and the hoses used to put the fire out. Because the House kitchen is just under the room where the fire took place some minor water damages also occurred there...

Author: By Farah J. Griffin, | Title: Fire Rages Briefly in Adams House Rooms; Six Engines Extinguish Blaze in Half Hour | 1/28/1983 | See Source »

...before slamming the closet door for good, a few comments are in order about this 90-minute satire of marriage and its pomp and circumstance. Filmed entirely in black and white. The Wedding Party depicts the ludicrous preparations for the marriage of newlyweds Charlie (Charles Pfluger) to Josephine (Clayburgh). Starting from the arrival of the groom's party on Josephine's modest family Island, the plot traces all the various preparations for this highly intricate ceremony Charlie and his two consorts (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley) arrive in a flurry of activity, meeting the extended family of sisters, cousins...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: A Skeleton From the Closet | 1/12/1983 | See Source »

...story. The devices rob the scenes of any potential success, because they lack focus. The movie leaves one feeling force-led. But The Wedding Party is difficult to digest. It would have been better to leave this film alone--instead of bringing these acting skeletons out of the closet...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: A Skeleton From the Closet | 1/12/1983 | See Source »

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