Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There has not been much mean news. One Japanese masseur received a twelve-year suspension for prescribing a forbidden herbal remedy, and a sheared oarlock gate on a French eight-oar boat showed all the marks (file marks) of a saboteur. The regatta venue, Lake Casitas, is the last place one would expect intrigue...
...forces, Ueberroth's Royal Blue Berets, are khaki-clad women and men as affable as park rangers. (Rest assured, there are hidden police gunmen.) Less than the customary Olympic access is being accorded the media. Once processed into the U.S.C. village, reporters have been quarantined just past the gate, a consideration probably involving privacy as much as security...
Children can deal with that (although they probably like the dark things which lurk in the swamp better), but what can they be expected to make of things like the second gate to the South Sage? The South Sage gate is a mirror which reflects a person's inner self. Although not a physical barrier, it is an effective deterrent because "most men, when confronted with their true inner nature, run away screaming." True, perhaps, but very much over the heads of eight-year-olds and too simplistic for their parents. At such times the movie's audience and message...
...school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior and a wise little ballerina Empress of Fantasia. Noah Hathaway...
...Army Organization, which fought Algerian independence with a campaign of bombings and assassinations, including several attempts on the life of President Charles De Gaulle; in Paris. Famous as France's most decorated soldier, Salan commanded colonial troops in Indochina in 1952 and 1953; he was named French dele gate-general in Algeria when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. De Gaulle proceeded toward independence and ousted Salan, who later went underground. Captured in 1962 and sentenced to Life in prison, he was pardoned by De Gaulle in 1968; his rank and pension were restored two years...