Word: flame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I came to China more than 40 years ago, I came believing it was a land whose pride had been erased. But, watching the Chinese fight Japan, I learned that pride, personal and national, still smoldered. Mao brought it to flame. I watched him change their thinking to that of eternal "strug gle" ? better to die than to submit...
...ground for both Pauline and Marion. Pauline dabbles a bit with passion by dating (if one can call it that) a young boy Sylvain (Simon de la Brosse) she herself meets on the beach. But most of the romanticism is Marion's. While bathing she runs into an old flame. Pierre (Pascal Gregory) whose heart and body still burns for Marion, who dumped him five years before to get married. But Pierre loves Marion too much, and in his own bumbling, cute way betrays the mystery she's looking for--and finds in the devilishly attractive Henri (Feodor Atkine). Pierre...
...time: "Neither the past nor the future." The place: the planet Krull, under enemy attack from metallic meanies who could be the second front of Darth Vader's army. The hero: Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...
...they managing it? Consider their approach to what is only a small side issue, the traditional Olympic torch relay. Deluged with tens of thousands of requests to carry the torch, L.A.O.O.C. President Peter Ueberroth concluded that the flame could generate some national spirit and some local dollars for youth sports programs. So last week he announced that for a tax-deductible $3,000 donation, anyone can now purchase 1 km along the 50-state 19,000-km route. The money for the 10,000 km that are for sale will go not to the Games but to one of three...
...sped by in his Popemobile. If John Paul could not visit the Poznan memorial, a crowd of several hundred people managed to avoid police blockades and rally by the twin crosses. A lonely yellow-and-white papal banner was left behind in the empty torch of an eternal flame that was extinguished soon after the military crackdown in December...