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...moon rose behind it," Amin Jan recalls. "The women and children were weeping." Those who owned trucks loaded them high with blankets, heirloom carpets, anything they could salvage from their bomb-shattered homes; others piled precious possessions on top of mules and camels or carried what they could: a lantern, a teapot, a generations-old copy of the Koran. While it was dark, they traveled fast along the rough mountain roads; during the day, when planes or helicopters reappeared in the skies, the refugees took shelter amid the rocks and trees...
ENGAGED. Gilda Radner, 38, loudmouthed, lantern-jawed comic actress on TV's Saturday Night Live, in films (First Family) and on Broadway (Lunch Hour); and Gene Wilder, 49, cherubic actor whom she met in 1981 on the set of Hanky Panky, where they fell in love both on-and offscreen (real life and reel life diverge in their latest movie together, The Woman in Red, in which he stars and directs and she co-stars as a spurned admirer); in Los Angeles. The marriage, her second, his third, is planned for October in Connecticut...
Keeping the flame lighted after it arrives on U.S. soil may be tricky. On practice runs in March, the flame kept going out. The maker of the torch has switched to a higher-grade propane, but as a precaution, a second Olympic flame will be kept burning in a lantern along the route...
...lived in an almost medieval state. The turmoil of the industrial revolution was all but unknown to them. The shogun's court at Edo received various dispatches from pairs of strong-legged runners, one of whom carried state documents in a lacquered box while the other bore a lantern marked "official business." In imperial Kyoto, the Empress and her ladies followed a custom of blackening their teeth...
...series made for Swedish television) is a family idyl. Oscar Ekdahl (Allan Edwall) is impresario of the local theater, and life at home is a succession of agreeable rituals: caroling, speechifying, sumptuous meals, flirtatious sex. The house is the perfect home for Alexander, whose favorite toy is a "magic lantern," a primitive movie camera. He can prowl through the unoccupied rooms poking into old mysteries, scouting loca tions. A pillow fight with his sister can send feathers swirling through the night light - his first special effect...