Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bull ring...
Once again, a fait accompli had put Makarios' men in control of important new strongpoints from which to threaten the Turkish Cypriots. Inside the Famagusta fortress, the Turkish Cypriots were left in a perilous situation. Their food and water could be cut off at any moment; already their telephone line had been disconnected. Said one Turkish Cypriot leader: "The Greeks want to make us surrender. If they go on like this, we must have help from Turkey...
...comes ever more abruptly, ever more violently. And after middle age, it comes suddenly through heart attack or stroke. There is hardly time to put one's life in order, in the ancient phrase, and to prepare for the end. In many a modern dying, there is no moment of death at all. Without realizing the momentous thing that is happening to them, patients are eased into the long, final coma. No matter how humane and sensible, this does raise the question of when and whether it is proper to "deprive a person of his death...
...wall has gaping holes. Police are free to use evidence gained by peering in the locked windows of a private house; they can also plant electronic "bugs" on outside walls to record conversations inside. Unless they unlock the windows or pierce the walls, they need no warrant-for the moment at least, the line is drawn at actual physical intrusion...
Carradine is an actor ideal for the part. He looks like a young god, projects his specially stylized diction affectingly, and has superb control of his bodily movements. The moment of astonishment when he discovers the existence of writing is a sight to behold; and, when he lies dead for minutes on end, I'd swear he didn't take a single breath...