Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawrence (Tom Hanks) can perhaps be excused his momentary petulance. After all, he has been forced to borrow his roommate's identity and Peace Corps credentials and flee Far Eastward to escape gambling debts on the very night of his Yale graduation. Why, he is still wearing his dinner jacket. His first seatmate on the flight has been "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma" (John Candy), who reads books about maximizing his potential capital-wise and is the most egregious go-getter since Babbitt. His next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence...
Falwell himself marches into the secular world with his chin outthrust. Unlike the many electronic ministers who flee direct questioning, Falwell challenges hostile outsiders. He travels 8,000 miles a week, lashing out at abortion, pornography and homosexuality. He has been to Harvard to duel with jeering students who spilled over into three auditoriums to hear him, and to Oxford to debate Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand about nuclear weapons. He dares Scientist Carl Sagan to debate creationism; Sagan has declined the challenge. He has a private session with South Africa's President P.W. Botha and sides publicly...
...Soviets, she seemed equally concerned that he was using his espionage activities as an alibi for romantic travels with other women. After she finally turned Walker in to the FBI last November, Barbara admitted, she warned him she had done so, thereby giving him a chance to flee...
...government has tried to transform the northern provinces patrolled by the contras into free-fire zones by clearing them of citizenry, sometimes relocating the populations of entire villages farther south. Disenchanted with the regime's military draft, rationing and repression, however, many campesinos flee in the opposite direction and sign up with the contras...
...watched for nearly an hour. A Soviet embassy official, later identified as Aleksey Gavilovich Tkachenko, drove near the spot, but did not stop. Finally, the agents moved in and picked up a brown shopping bag. At 3 a.m. they surprised Walker at a nearby Ramada Inn. He tried to flee down a hallway but prudently decided not to use the loaded pistol he was carrying...