Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central Asian state of Tajikistan imposed a state of emergency in a southern province following the death of two progovernment commanders, reportedly in a shoot-out. Capping months of wrangling, Tajik sources say, Sangak Safarov and Faizali Saidov went for their guns during an argument over the fate of refugees seeking to return from Afghanistan. Authorities fear the deadly duel could spark reprisals among the chieftains' followers and embolden Islamic and nationalist insurgents to reignite the fighting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives...
...Spanish-American War in 1898 Cubs Irish immigrant Nelson O'Brien meets Mariela Montez, whom he marries and takes home to the States. Margarita, the first of their fifteen children, is born at sea on route to America. Her recollections form the backbone of the novel, which recounts the fate of the fourteen sisters and the one brother. Emilio...
...Boris Nikolayevich, you have 150 million supporters -- all of Russia!" shouted a second demonstrator. "You have come just in time," Yeltsin told the crowd. "Today will decide the fate of the President, your fate, the fate of Russia." Impeaching Yeltsin would have required a two- thirds majority, or 689 votes -- the actual vote was 617. Khasbulatov, who could have been removed by a simple majority, was saved by a 558-339 vote in his favor...
...each experience taught him more about his craft and prepared him for Unforgiven, a lean and provocative antiwestern in which the good guys are not so swell and the bad guys are not entirely deserving of their fate. For Eastwood it was something new, garbed in familiar cowboy clothing. Only after the final gunfight does the director allow his alter ego, the actor, to indulge in a brief valedictory to the satiric excess that characterized the Eastwood of an earlier era. "Any son of a bitch who takes a shot at me," gunman William Munny bellows into the night...
This much lauded movie has some of young Scalici's sullenly vixenish charm. But Stolen Children is also a little too pat in its direction and characterizations and in its dramatic arc from bondage to liberation to mute acceptance of fate's bureaucratic whims. For a movie that worms inside a child's hopes and fears, that understands how kids can be both shaped by their family and in righteous rebellion against it, you should see -- immediately -- Leolo...