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...mysterious garden, clambering into second-story windows, even confronting Mr. Bad. Early in the film, the exhibitionist is discovered; at the end, Stewart the voyeur is. And every Peeping Tom in the audience must feel a naked identification with a hero who is terrified and unable to flee...
...Lilco's beleaguered management. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to license the plant for operation. Locally, officials of Long Island's Suffolk County are convinced that a serious accident at the plant would cause nuclear fallout to envelop nearby residents before they could flee. Said Deputy Suffolk County Executive Frank Jones: "Shoreham should not and cannot go on line. It should be abandoned." Some county officials now argue that Shoreham should be converted to a coal-burning plant...
Ingrid Berg was no ordinary East German, and she did not flee the country like one. With her husband, mother-in-law and two children, 3 and 7, Berg drove the family Volvo to Czechoslovakia, the only foreign country that East Germans can visit without an exit permit. In Prague they headed for the West German embassy, claimed refuge and demanded asylum in the Federal Republic. Then Berg revealed her identity: she was, she said, the niece of East German Premier Willi Stoph, the second most important man in the Communist hierarchy...
...women and even babies, apparently victims of a massacre five months ago, were found in houses, streets and fields. Some were grouped around tables still bearing the remnants of what had been their last meal; others were frozen in postures indicating they had been gunned down while attempting to flee. Faced with passions deep enough to have produced such grisly scenes as those, peace seems never to have had any chance at all. -By George J. Church...
...seed and the cousins survive by staying huddled closed to the ground, according to native custom. Then the adults return, having passed a day in the country, and learn with horror that time has warped while they were away. Afraid of what might have happened in their house, they flee to the capital city and begin to arrange a sale of their gold mine. Eventually they return to the summer house with the pasty-faced, foreign prospective buyers. Despite the sight of their terrified children, they pretend nothing has gone wrong and entertain the foreigners. But soon the thistles...