Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim that the Unification Church is a religious organization is to cleverly confuse the issue. The Moonies exist to make money--piles of it. Rev. Moon does not walk through the Judean desert preaching in tattered clothes. No! "Father" drives one of his many white Cadillacs to one of his several homes and lets his halo envelop all around him. Rev. Moon also dispenses with the thorns and the pain bit. Life is a pleasure for such a wealthy and happy man; so must it be for his brainwashed flock...
...known to have lamented that he did not seize the chance to do so in the early '70s, before Gaddafi consolidated his hold on power. Now such aggression would court major risks. Attacking Libya from Egypt, for example, would involve a brutal campaign across vast expanses of desert; with their plentiful arms stockpile, Libyans might do better than anyone expected...
...used in Aswan. As occasionally happened, Sadat was brooding about something or other, puffing on his pipe. One could see the dhows on the Nile, the mighty river bisecting a very narrow strip of green and flanked on both sides by the vast dunes of a seemingly endless desert. The silence was interrupted by an aide, who whispered something into Sadat's ear. Sadat rose with tears in his eyes, and I got up as well. He embraced me for the first time and said: "They have just signed the disengagement agreement. Today I will take off my uniform...
...opening certainly has promise. Two brothers meet in the desert chapel where one of them is a priest. They talk uneasily of old times, careful to stay away from still-raw wounds. They are settling old debts peacefully, ready to die. The scene then cuts abruptly to an ornate cathedral, where the priest is presiding over a wedding about 20 years earlier. The impression is of great power in his hands; apparently by mere force of his personality, the priest has harnessed all that this magnificent scene can offer. He is in control...
...film's strongest suit, however, is the magnificent cinematography of Russell Boyd. One after another, rich sequences of film fill the screen. Shots of furtive faces seen through the wheels of a passing train, or of a shimmering Australian desert, or of boatloads of soldiers making an amphibious assault through an eerie bluish fog make Gallipoli the kind of movie that you would not want to leave even if the sound track broke...