Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saving grace. It is not really about the tragic love of Rodolfo and Mimi, or even about the life of dissolute artists. The film's only true heroine is Paris, the gritty, alienating city of the post-war years. To achieve this quality of romantic seediness, Kaurismaki fled the Left Bank for the working-class suburbs of Malakoff and Ivry-sur-Seine...
...travelled to his ancestral village in Quon Dong, China to see the home his family fled at the onset of the Japanese invasion during World...
Rivera, police said, peddled his way through Cambridge's narrow streets and stopped in front of the Hong Kong restaurant on Massachusetts Ave., where he abandoned the bike and fled on foot...
...driveways and garages. Residents say air contaminants, such as trichloroethane, have been responsible for personal tragedies. Among them has been a rash of birth defects: in one four-month period, 11 deformed children were born; other children suffered serious heart and reproductive-organ problems. Most of the citizens have fled their homes. Many have been compensated by the courts and developers: last year 1,700 plaintiffs agreed on a settlement of $207 million, reportedly the largest-ever out-of-court deal in a toxic-waste case. Meanwhile, after 10 years, liquid and airborne wastes are still flowing from the plant...
Joel aims for the universal but smartly stays close to home. If Bruce Springsteen is the Jersey shore, Billy is Long Island, where the working class that fled Brooklyn stares stilettos at the moneyed folk who summer in the Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only...