Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither Vito nor the audience entirely understands what's happening to him. All he (and we) know is that he must flee for his life. And therein lies the key to this film's success. For Carlei wants to thrust us into the mind of this almost completely silent boy. He gives us no more information than Vito acquires, in bits and pieces, as he flees to Rome in search of something, somebody -- we're not sure. Carlei's camera is often radically subjective, seeing through Vito's eyes as the boy rushes panicked through the streets. Equally often...
...Haiti is merely tactical, a reflection of the assumption that those who enjoy liberty will stay put. Meanwhile on the ground, the situation worsens daily. "Anyone can be killed at any time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances are becoming common. Foreigners can flee at will, and many are doing so, including those charged with monitoring human-rights violations, but the thousands of Haitians who have been systematically repressed since the 1991 military coup are stuck. No matter, says the President who ran on a platform of putting people first -- including, not incidentally, the Haitian...
...Bois co-founded the National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People, and taught atWilberforce University, the University ofPennsylvania and Atlanta University. The U.S.government forced him to flee to Ghana at the ageof 93 because of his left-wing political views...
...Clarence hopes to travel abroad, it is only because he "always wanted to see what TV in other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, Christopher Walken as a Mafia don) and flee -- with the surprise package of a suitcase full of cocaine -- to Los Angeles. Their moral code is hardly more righteous than that of their pursuers, but they're on their way, down a white-brick road toward the end of the rainbow. You kind of know Elvis will be there...
...eldest son Mark dragged two satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance of a park in upper Manhattan, where he handed them to Fermin. But the kidnapper didn't keep his end of the bargain to release Weinstein within three hours. Fearing that the abductors might flee the country and abandon their victim to die, police moved...