Word: mia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knight, Seeking to win a respite, challenges Death to a game of chess. The Knight and Jons travel the contryside, which is ravaged by the plague. Also roaming the land is a band of travelling players--Jof (Nils Poppe), a visionary who sees the Virgin Mary, Jof's wife Mia (Bibi Andersson) and their baby...
...robes, his angular, bony face impossibly white, stands with Maria Casares in Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" and the peasant in Roberto Gavalodon's "Macario" as one of the greatest visualizations of death in cinema. At one point, Jof sees the Knight playing chess with Death, and he escapes with Mia and their son. The Knight travels to his castle with several of his companios, and it is there that Death finds them. As the film closes, Jof has a vision of Death leading the Knight and his companions in a dance across the horizon...
...Commander in Chief and shouted catcalls. Last week Clinton denied he had put a commercial gold rush ahead of veterans' concerns, which a top aide insisted were his "sole consideration." The logic was that Vietnam needed a show of good faith by the U.S. to ensure settling the MIA issue permanently...
...Thursday of last week, President Clinton closed another wound in the American body politic by declaring an end to the 19-year ban on trade with Vietnam. Citing increased cooperation from the Vietnamese on the matter of American MIA's, Clinton, who personally avoided service in the war, became the man responsible for officially ending...
...RAIN TURNED TO SLEET IN WASHINGton last Thursday, a young man stood silently on the sidewalk next to a White House gate, balancing a flagpole from which hung a black banner inscribed POW-MIA. He is a frequent and unnecessary reminder to Bill Clinton that the psychological and emotional turf of a war that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans is dangerous terrain to a President who did not serve...