Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city, there were few visible signs of the revolution. A red-and-white banner draped on a building read, OUR EYES ARE OPEN: THE TIME OF THE PEOPLE HAS COME. At the modernistic executive mansion where Tolbert had died, security was minimal. A lone trooper stood watch at the gate, while a mere handful of armed soldiers milled around inside. At the seaside Ducor Inter-Continental Hotel, a sign in the lobby admonished guests to obey the dusk-to-dawn curfew. Its message: STAY OFF THE STREETS AND STAY ALIVE...
...gardens. But others were overcome by sunstroke and dehydration. Dozens of children lay sprawled on the cool terrazzo floor of the two-story mansion, while one mother nursed her newborn baby, aptly named Peru. "There are people in the branches of the trees, on top of the mangled iron gate and even on the roof of the embassy," wailed one beleaguered Peruvian official. "There's not enough room for one more person...
...headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and other Latin American countries over their policy of granting political asylum to gatecrashing Cubans who manage to gain entrance to their embassies. There is some suspicion that in withdrawing guards from the Peruvian compound officials knew what would happen: thousands of unhappy Cubans from every walk of life began streaming into...
...good men and true) he proposes again. She refuses, not happily and not certain of what she is doing. She says that she intends to be a writer and does indeed turn out a manuscript. The last scene shows her, having posted it to a publisher, leaning on the gate of her parents' ranch, smiling. This is a modest, clear sighted film, and it profits considerably from a lack of the bravura landscape photography that most directors would have used to puff up a movie set in Australia...
...surrender proven quality in exchange for open market talent would inhibit many acquisitive owners. But Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller insists that the game has benefited from interest in high-priced stars. Says Miller: "In the years since free agency, baseball has set four straight records for attendance, gate receipts and TV revenues. Now they say we have to agree to go backward...