Word: furloughs
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...Harvard Film Archive. The films are a merciless attack on Turkey’s government, which Guney considered fascist, and its culture, which he considered primitive and self-destructive. Yol, which won Guney a Palme D’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, follows five prisoners on furlough as they travel home and witness the ills imposed on the Turkish people by their government, military and customs. Guney wrote and edited the Yol while he himself was in prison, enlisting Serif Goren to do the actual filming. All three films have been newly subtitled in English...
...rinds mode: An exuberant populist condescension used to overwhelm Bush's WASPiness around election time and dispatch him on missions of good-natured political slumming. He sang along to country music. In every public square, he hammered away at big, cheap themes: 1) Willie Horton, the Black Monster on Furlough; 2) Read My Lips, No New Taxes; and 3) Uncouth Radicals Want to Burn Your Flag...