Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mention one's personal safety) in constant danger of being shattered, he will have come a long way towards understanding female aloofness. My friend's real fears only began that evening after her bus ride, for the man who had menaced her turned out to be a neighbor who jogged past her house each morning...
...doors on stage right make the play a legitimate thriller; it is very witty as well. Bruhl's snide remarks about producers who ignore his plays and his collaborators in crime keep the play moving. The funniest moments of the night come with visits from the Bruhl's eccentric neighbor who proudly announces on each entrance. "I am Helge Ten Dorp, I am psychic...
...Iraqi citizens accustomed to official admonitions about how the three-year battle with their hated neighbor Iran is likely to grind on indefinitely, the pronouncement must have been startling. Meeting with visitors at his palace in Baghdad last week, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bravely ventured a prediction. "Victory is at hand and not far away," he told his guests."With God's help, the final defeat of the enemy is in sight and within our reach. He is like a slaughtered bull in his death throes...
...nation in mourning points a finger at its northern neighbor...
...camerawork, to brilliant contrast between dark night and the torches of the security police. He succeeds masterfully in conveying the dreadful anxiety of living in a totalitarian regime. For if the government of the Terror lacks the 20th century's technological tools of surveillance, it nevertheless aspired to set neighbor spying on neighbor, and to make public what had previously been private, perhaps the essential aim of totalitarianism. Sacrifice to the cause, submission for the greater good were the Terror's ideals...