Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the film industry's traditional summer vacation from reality, "Lone Star" might be just enough to brings us, quite literally, back down to earth. Director John Sayles presents a skillfully woven tapestry of stories, part mystery and part cross-generational conflict. Beautiful camera work and several fine performances draw us effortlessly into the world and dusty history of a Texan town and of a sheriff searching for his father...
...Deeds is determined to dig up dirt about his father, spurred on by the discovery of bones and badge belonging to the relentlessly reptilian Sheriff Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson) whom old Sheriff Deeds may have killed. Add to the picture other family mini-dramas--another family's father-son conflict; Sam's high school sweetheart Pilar (Elizabeth Pena) and her family--and there's more than enough for the canvas...
Such a belief in the endurance of place over time gives the movie an easy-going realism, with almost a social historian's slant. Sam's search for the true story of his father neatly parallels the brief conflict in one scene between Hispanics and whites in the community over what version of history to teach. As Sam listens to one account after another of various adventures related to the murder mystery, the movie's theme becomes interaction between story-telling and reality...
According to McLaughlin, President Neil L. Rudenstine did not attend the seminar in 1991, his first year, due to a scheduling conflict...
...woods. The incident came on the same day that war crimes investigators in Cerska began a meticulous exhumation of the mass graves in which they expect to find about 7,000 bodies of Muslim men who were massacred and then haphazardly buried throughout Bosnia during the four-year conflict. The bodies will serve as evidence in the cases against Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Says TIME's Dejan Anastasijevic: "The attacks are just the product of the Serbs getting a bit nervous. They fear the possible arrests of Mladic and Karadzic, since the NATO peacekeepers, the Implementation Force...