Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
...Three Flee...
...come to his aid. Both sides, however, gave their word to spare Tripoli. Arafat apparently promised not to shell rebel positions from within the city, thus risking return fire, while Abu Mousa pledged not to invade. Nonetheless, rumors floated through the city all week that Arafat was about to flee. On Thursday, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the missile launcher Orsa and the destroyer Intrepido stood ready off the Lebanese coast to evacuate Arafat...
...chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that faced the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, finally determines to flee the country on an agonizingly slow boat through the China...
...single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past his view finder. It is the business of the film lo arrange a not entirely persuasive series of events that shatter Price's illusions about the power of objectivity to defend itself when political passion is afire. The rebels want him to fake a picture that will aid their...