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...bells and the chanting of plainsong, the show opens with King Duncan receiving communion and ends with his son Malcolm being crowned. The officiating priest, crosier in hand, also functions as the Old Man who talks with Ross, and later as the Messenger who urges Lady Macduff to flee with her children...
Already, foreign businessmen fear to set foot inside the country, and many of those there have decided to flee rather than risk becoming targets for the guerrillas. There is an even more ominous note: the price rollbacks on consumer goods designed to control Argentina's spiraling inflation are so steep that some foreign-owned companies may be forced to follow their executives out of the country...
...supplied by Richard Nixon) or sailing in an assured, near professional style (he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960). Deadly serious about his future, King Constantine, 33, has conscientiously kept up with Greek politics since the failure of a 1967 attempt to oust the junta forced him to flee his homeland...
...example from the famous Shadow Over Innsmouth will suffice. The plot concerns a doomed Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...
...notion of wedding should come as no great shock. The campaign against the Viet Nam War is now all but over. Berrigan himself, writing in 1972, was beginning to argue that celibacy can be "an excuse to flee from the complexities of human love." Besides, the two peace rebels had grown closer together during months of shared adversity...