Word: mur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same morning that an explosion shattered the U.S. embassy annex on the outskirts of East Beirut, another act of terror was being carried out 29 miles away in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. In the small Shi'ite Muslim village of Suh-mur, 13 people were murdered by militiamen of the Christian-dominated Army of Southern Lebanon, apparently in retaliation for the earlier killing of four of its soldiers...
These jokes come out as segments of nervous, elliptical stories. The man who tells them is a flatheaded, redheaded le mur with closely bitten fingernails and a sports jacket...
Welcome to John Sayles' going-away party for the the idealism of the Nixon years. Not much "happens" in Secaucus. Some songs are sung, a few partners change, and the whole gang is falsely arrested for mur dering a deer - or, as one of them describes the charge, "Bambicide." Sayles has appropriated the discursive, episodic format of many recent films (and the spirit of that charming, intelligent Swiss com edy Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000), but he constructs individual scenes with the deftness of a Billy Wilder. His dialogue often circles back...