Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid writing that kind of poetry, poetry about painting. Film is much more important to me now than painting. Such really beautiful things can happen in film, you know. Did you ever see Bertucelli's 'Ramparts of Clay'?" This is a film about a strike in a small Tunisian desert village. "You have? That one scene, where the heroine is drawing water from the well, and she keeps turning and turning the handle for what seems like an eternity... That image says so much about the girl's life...
Alice has recently taken possession of a four-bedroom desert sprawl of a house in the Paradise Valley section of Phoenix, just beneath the Camelback Mountain residence of Senator Barry Goldwater. The Senator is safe. Alice has no immediate plans to return to the West. Home at the moment is a Manhattan penthouse that is, by his own description, "elegantly decadent." Until recently he lived in a 40-room mansion in Greenwich, Conn., complete with a male effigy hanging by the neck in the living room, wall-to-wall mirrors in the bathrooms, swastikas posted on the bedroom walls...
...Stuck off by itself in the desert between Tucson and the Mexican border, legendary and tiny (pop. 1,200) Tombstone, Ariz., has so little to attract a doctor that its people have been without local medical care for much of the past eight years. But now the community where Wyatt Earp shot it out with desperadoes is doctorless no longer. An osteopath named Patrick Lorey, 36, has decided to live in the town for at least seven years. Lorey's decision was not completely voluntary. Convicted last fall of selling amphetamines, Lorey could have been sent to prison...
...Golan Heights, and Iraq and Algeria face each other in a super soccer stadium at Sharm el Sheikh. Yassir Arafat could retire on a pension, Anwar Sadat take a job as headwaiter in a kosher restaurant, and Colonel Gaddafi mount his white camel and ride off into the desert forever...
LIKE MOST Americans who were drafted in 1968, O'Brien did not emigrate to Canada or submit to a jail term. And even when he knew he was headed for Vietnam as a grunt, he did not desert. He formulated precise plans for an escape to Sweden, but as he started to leave, he found that the futility of a lonely protest and the vagueness of the future as an exile clouded any clear moral course It would hurt his parents more, he decided, to receive a letter from him explaining his desertion than a telegram announcing his death...