Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leon Ormond Brigantine...
...There's always going to be Poland. They're going to survive," Leon Ramosiewicz said, arguing that the heightened tensions between the government and the people would dissipate. "I hope they're going to settle among themselves--I know them well...
...People when you can pay a fraction of the cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market and not get any of it back," says Leon Knize, senior marketing vice president for Warner Home Video, explaining why his company has switched from a sales to a rental-only policy...
...school of the great English historian Arnold Toynbee, attempt to systematize history, fitting it into a series of patterns and cycles with scientific elegance. Others, like Sir Charles Oman, contend that the human record is illogical, that history is a series of happenings with no inevitability about it. As Leon Trotsky once observed, cause in history "refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...
Lilienthal's portrait of the city of Leon in the final days of the revolution--reenacted with the eager aid of dozens of actual participants--has its share of melodrama, certainly. And the drama is poorly developed, really just one episode after another. But the director drives home one crucial point: short of wholesale slaughter, there seems no way of stopping a popular revolution in a small country. The few National Guardsmen who must "control" Leon, in reality control only the garrison in the center of the city, and the radius of automatic fire around their heavily armed vehicles. Sooner...