Word: died
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jane Fonda. Three theatrical movies probing racial conflict in South Africa are on the way. The first and most prestigious of the three is Cry Freedom, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi). Due in early November, it explores the friendship between Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), the black leader who died in prison after police interrogation, and Donald Woods, a white anti-apartheid newspaper editor (Kevin Kline). Coming next spring is Atlantic's A World Apart, about a family caught in the racial strife of the 1960s, with Barbara Hershey. Also planned: The Long Weekend, to star Julian Sands as Neil...
ALNILAM, James Dickey -- THE BOYS OF WINTER, Wilfrid Sheed -- 50, Avery Corman MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK, Saul Bellow POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, Carrie Fisher -- YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, Joyce Carol Oates...
These faces know hard times. They look sculpted from granite. They are sere with too much work, too little food and the knowledge that in 1920 in Matewan, W. Va., life is a bed of coal. Man and boy go into the mines and die; mother and wife wait for the sound of their men coming home, or for the fatal word that they won't. Life has pressed all hope out of these faces -- to smile would be a crime against remorseless nature -- though there is no free time for despair. The miners have been taught to accept their...
...jogging: Do you get the benefits of extra endurance now, he wonders, "when you're still able to eat a pastrami sandwich, or at the end when you're already on a life-support system?" The gloomy sportswriter imagines his own funeral, but it is only his columns that die. Corman offers savage, sparkling portraits of the hustlers and operators of professional sport, including a newspaper owner who believes in the lowest common dominator: the semiliterate reader who wants upbeat features...
...three runs the planes dropped at least ten bombs, returning to strafe the area. Swirls of thick black smoke rose from the largely demolished structure. When she heard of the bombing, the wife of one mutinous officer inside the camp grew hysterical. "My husband is ready to die," she said. "That's how committed they are. They are ready to die for their cause...