Word: courtyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From inside the walled courtyard of Shifa Hospital, the 200 young men hurled stones at the advancing Israeli troops. On the roads leading to the hospital, other rioters set truck tires on fire, smearing the brilliant blue sky over Gaza with stinking black smoke. Nearby, a loudspeaker on the minaret of a mosque blared encouragement: "Oh, you young people, go at them! Don't back off!" As an Israeli helicopter dropped tear-gas canisters into the courtyard, the soldiers finally stormed the gates, chasing the demonstrators through the hospital's corridors and beating some of them bloody. Two Palestinians were...
Diederich, meanwhile, sprinted in a different direction. "I felt someone go down, but my eyes were fixed on a wall, topped with broken glass, near the school. The armed men were getting closer. I went over. When I reached a small courtyard, the people who lived there hid me and tended a gash in my hand." The U.S. embassy later sent an armored car to pick him up. "I was lucky I had a place to escape to," said Diederich, a Miami resident who was born in Haiti and is the son of TIME Reporter Bernard Diederich. "Those people took...
...through the night to seize a baby from his crib and place him on the throne; the Emperor's English tutor (Peter O'Toole) flapping through the streets on his bicycle; an Emperor and his bride (the lovely, fragile Joan Chen) overwhelmed by their huge wedding chamber; the great courtyard filled with wailing eunuchs, dismissed by their ruler; a tennis court, so strangely out of place in these precincts and yet the locale where Pu Yi hears that he has been deposed -- all of this is Bertolucci at his effortless best, a man from whom unforgettable visual metaphors seem...
Goldsmith also still has Ginette, after a fashion. Now 51 and divorced ! since 1978, she lives in one wing of Goldsmith's Tudor-style Paris mansion, originally built for the brother of King Louis XIV. In the other wing of the same estate, across a courtyard bright with impatiens, lives Goldsmith's companion, Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, 36, a slim beauty with waist-length brown hair, and their four-year-old daughter Charlotte. De la Meurthe is the editor of a monthly style section in L'Express, the weekly newsmagazine that Goldsmith controls. There is also Goldsmith's legal...
...scene in the palace is dismal. Within the courtyard, acres of wisteria blooms seem lacklustre and inanimate. Even the thick gold pavement on the garden path seems to have lost its sheen. The heads of traitorous peasants bob wearily on poorly-maintained pikes. Entering the main hall, I find the prince sprawled, seemingly in despair, on top of a large pile of wrinkled and soiled currency...