Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind her husband's back, the wife (Olympia Dukakis) wants to unload the house and property to a smarmy, carnally inclined real estate operator and then flee with the land shark to the cultural dreamland of Europe. The husband (James Gammon), a complicated victim of drink, anger and despondency, wants to shed the property and escape to Mexico alone...
...coastal residents, the blizzard meant nearly 40 hours of sudden death and devastation. Winds lashed the seas into 50-ft. waves that smashed hundreds of seaside houses and forced thousands to flee inland. In Revere, Mass., some people clung to the rooftops of their houses. "Twice each day, when the tide came in, I thought I was going to die," said Anthony Chiarella, who retreated to his attic with his dog Sergeant. In Hull, Teacher Martha Fingers and her family rested in shifts so that they would not be caught unaware if the house was about to be swept away...
...Mashall bint Abdul Aziz, 23, whose arranged marriage had gone sour. She had fallen in love with Musleh al Sha'er, the nephew of the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali al Sha'er. When their perilous affair was threatened with exposure, they obtained forged passports and attempted to flee the country by air. The princess disguised herself as a man, but was apprehended with her lover when security police at Jeddah airport glimpsed a suspiciously full-busted silhouette under the would-be traveler's traditional flowing thobe...
...could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroqois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hooch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would have to flee, back across the line into western Virginia, up into one of those hollows where a man had kin. The only excitement of the trip, made in mid-winter on horseback, was that it would kill the two children he had even while his wife gave birth to another, whom Jaybird named William...
While arresting a drug dealer in Coeur l'Alene, Idaho, one August night in 1972, Narcotics Agent Michael A. Caldero shot and wounded the suspect's companion, who tried to flee. He eventually recovered, the pusher was convicted, and the shooting incident went largely unquestioned-until Lewiston Tribune Reporter James E. ("Jay") Shelledy revived it a year later in a six-part series on the state drug enforcement agency...