Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans, where Boston and Johnson live, and then on to rural Gallman, Miss., 30 miles south of Jackson. At a local farmhouse they found and arrested Boston. Wisely, she did not resist. Surrounding the house was a small army of 50 G-men, four SWAT teams, two tanks and, overhead, two helicopters. Another 50 agents and two more tanks were stationed near by. Boston, who prefers the name Fulani Sunni-Ali to what she calls her "slave name," is the minister of information for the R.N.A. The farmhouse was apparently used by the group to give paramilitary training to teenagers...
Swedish marines and paratroops, some with blackened faces and camouflage gear, surrounded the area. Swedish helicopters hovered overhead. On the mainland, Swedish police began discreetly phoning hotels on the chance that some Soviets may have slipped ashore and registered as guests. None were found...
...Caernarvon, where Charles was vested as Prince of Wales in 1969 by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, the couple rested on two slate chairs in the castle courtyard. Overhead, the skies added their own dramatic greeting, going from sun to inky storm clouds, to rain and, finally, at dusk, to a rainbow that seemed to touch down just behind the battlements. When the couple emerged, Diana thrilled the young schoolgirls in the crowd by removing her gloves and wiggling her fingers so that they could get a glimpse of her engagement and wedding rings...
...their graves. Consider the modern classic about the woman in Ohio (or was it Oregon? or Maine?) who is doing the laundry in her basement when she impulsively decides to remove her soiled dress and add it to the load. Her hair is in rollers and the pipes overhead are leaking. She spots her son's football helmet and dons it. There she stands, naked except for the helmet, when she hears a cough. The woman turns to face the meter reader. Says he, as he heads for the door: "I hope your team wins, lady...
This alternates with an overhead shot of the Convention. Every deputy in the great hall is on his feet, long lines of men facing each other, shouting. As the scene becomes more riotous, the camera starts to sway, rocking back and forth with a nauseating momentum. The scene cuts back to the little man alone in the storm, his Tricolor ripped to rags, and then back again to the Convention. When the sequence draws to a close, the camera above the Hall is in full swing. Human figures barely distinguishable, the motion is sickening yet hypnotic--Gance turning Napoleon...