Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lords of Discipline might be put to best use if screened to non-Christians in faraway lands, since the plot holds few surprises for a Westerner. Are we supposed to be surprised when Will cribs from the Golden Rule and says he will not participate in torturing the new cadets, since he didn't like the practice when it was done to him? Or when the good Will recruits a hardy band of disciples, and one of them, Judas-like, betrays him several scenes later? Even the casting department of the film seems to have gotten into the Christian imagery...
...time and space back to the flourishing days of the West African slave trade. Given these performances and the critical praise they received, Chatwin's third book (and second novel) seems more surprising still. On the Black Hill has nothing at all to do with wanderlust or faraway places; it is as firmly rooted to one spot as the geological formation in its title...
...Frogmore, South Carolina, for Mauntania, a barrenarid nation the size of Alaska, just south of Morocco. I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is 3 a.m. An autumn chill has penetrated the walls and filled my room, so i must wear a jacket as I type, My sister is so faraway, on the other side of the world, that I imagine is afternoon there right now, I'm not sure what season it is in Mauritania, but I don't think that matters: it is always very hot. So while I am fighting off sleep and bundling against the cold...
...show that he lives up to the standards of anti-Arab Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and later tries to figure out how to leave wartorn, inflation-ridden Israel by obtaining an immigrant visa to the U.S. In the end, alas, he dies while on military service in faraway "Israeli-occupied Albania...
...lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...