Word: fallen
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...Taliban ran. At 9 p.m., said Wakil Mir Agha, a local leader from a suburb near Kabul International Airport, he was on the roof of his house and heard Taliban soldiers saying Qarabagh had fallen. Soon after, he reported, they fled the city, joining some 8,000 Taliban and radical fighters. It was unclear whether the retreat had been ordered or was a result of panic. Said Jawed Hussein, 21, a Pakistani captured by the Alliance: "Everybody was running to save his own skin." Or driving. Abandoning tanks and heavy weapons, they stole an estimated 800 cars for their getaway...
...heat was on. After two minor films, Wong Kar-wai knocked on Mok's door for the Chungking Express follow-up, Fallen Angels, in which she wore a wig and played Punkie, a semicrazed jilted girlfriend. That won Mok a best supporting actress award from the Hong Kong Film Academy. "She's not one of us and nobody knows what to do with her," says Kar-wai, Hong Kong's bard of nihilism and neon. "The Hong Kong Cantonese look at a young Maggie Cheung and see her as the girl next door. They look at Karen...
...more planning on spending less than spending more. Retail Forward Inc. forecasts a drop of 1.5 percent in the season's sales of apparel, furniture, consumer electronics and other general merchandise over last season's - which doesn't sound too bad until you consider that such sales haven't fallen on a year-to-year basis in 34 years. In what passes for optimism this year, the National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will rise 2.5 to 3 percent, which sounds pretty good until you consider that last year's dismal sales season was a 3.9 percent hike over...
...movie houses Redford has been eyeing is the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. He saw his first film there--a Nazi thriller starring John Garfield called The Fallen Sparrow--when he was six. Recalling the Saturday matinees in which half a dozen cartoons and serials played at a stretch, he says, "Movie theaters were not only for entertainment--they were a gathering place for people." This memory kindles a smile and, for a moment, restores the youth of the Sundance...
...orchid that had fallen...I also squeezed out two different colors of paint from tubes that were lying on my desk close by, that I thought would make the most visually stimulating point...I also do Chinese watercolor painting, so that’s where I got the idea...