Word: fleeing
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...ridiculously hard to execute. As director Annaud says, he and screenwriter Brach only placed their animals in very basic survival situations "in which a bear or a man would respond in the same ways." That is to say, by resorting to their common store of instincts: to fight or flee, to seek food, shelter, sex. The difficulties of capturing all this on film, using actors that are willful, dangerous and, of course, nonverbal, requires awesome patience and artifice, both on location and in postproduction. At the level of technique, The Bear is to other films about nature what Star Wars...
Sometimes storms, even hurricanes, can be exhilarating. It is fun to stand on a beach during a histrionic blow. An earthquake is not that kind of thrill. The worst part may be the feeling of helplessness. There is no right thing to do just then, except perhaps to flee the building. There is no knowing where the earth will open next. The wild cracking follows no principle but the terrifyingly random. Denial ("this is not happening") competes with fascination...
When playwright Vaclav Havel arrived at a restaurant for a meeting of the Helsinki Human Rights Monitoring Committee last week, other members shouted at him to flee. Havel, who was released from prison in May after a conviction for inciting antistate activities, obeyed the warning and thus avoided becoming the 16th committee member arrested by security police for unspecified reasons. In a continuing crackdown underscoring its resistance to reform, the government of Milos Jakes last week also briefly arrested five human rights activists meeting in a private apartment...
...nation's leadership often hears what it wants to hear, but few have seemed quite so deaf to the public's demands as East Germany's rulers. Thousands flee the country, protesters stage hunger strikes in churches, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offers a gentle lecture in person -- none of it seemed to make a difference. But last week as the cries for democratic reform reached a crescendo in cities across East Germany, the leaders in East Berlin demonstrated that their hearing faculties were intact -- and that they were distressed by the rising noise level...
...Israel. In the mid-1960s, 40,000 elephants thundered amid the scrub thorn, acacia and baobob trees. Last year's aerial survey spotted only 5,363 live elephants in and around the park, and 2,421 carcasses. The survivors are skittish creatures, often clustered in fear and quick to flee at the scent...