Word: outcastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might not have heard or misanthropes who just don't care, is an adventurous seagull who wants to "fly where no seagull has flown before," to "know what there is to know of this life." This angers his flock. An outraged Elder announces, "You are henceforth and forever outcast!", and Jonathan takes it on the wing...
...wonder−considering that neither Egypt nor Syria even had diplomatic relations with Jordan. The little kingdom has been a virtual outcast in Arab ranks ever since September 1970, when Hussein and his army clamped down, with much bloodshed, on the fedayeen operating in his country. The crackdown cost Jordan's King a badly needed subsidy from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ($20 million annually) and froze Kuwait's substantial contribution ($40 million annually) to Jordan. In August 1971, after the Jordanians threw out the remaining fedayeen forces, neighboring Syria severed diplomatic relations. A year later, Sadat broke...
From Here to Eternity. This academy award winner is cheap stuff as romantic narrative, but the acting and the characterization make it worth watching. It's a subdued 1940's version of Easy Rider (the lonely outcast line et. al.). Montgomery Cliff is superb, and one could almost learn to like Frank Sinatra from this flick. By the way, this is the role that Sinatra got due to mob pressure when his career was at its low point. Midnight on Channel...
...ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody -- the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory -- at this point the movie gets boring -- he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Orson Welles. Midnight...
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in the German town of Fürth, Kissinger grew up as the Nazis were coming to power, and so found himself an outcast. Heinz, as he was then called, was denied admission to high school, forced to attend an all-Jewish school, and often beaten up by gangs of pro-Nazi toughs...