Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when French friends kept asking him to "explain Little Rock," where the U.S. Army had been summoned to escort nine black children to school through screaming mobs of whites, Jimmy finally decided "that it would be simpler . . . to go to Little Rock than sit in Europe, on an American passport, trying to explain...
...couple, who identified themselves as Japanese Tourist Shinichi Hachiya and his daughter Mayumi, were about to leave Bahrain for Rome when immigration officials, accompanied by a Japanese diplomat, stopped them. A South Korean request for Tokyo to check travel documents had revealed that the woman held a fake passport. She would have to return to Japan. Asked if he wanted to proceed to Rome, her companion said, "It is useless to travel alone." As a guard watched over them in the Bahrain airport, the woman took out a pack of Marlboros. Removing a glass capsule, the couple consumed an unknown...
...arouse passions. His plays have frequently been topical, occasionally incendiary, and he researched them with the fervor of an investigative journalist. Opinionated and outspoken, he relished the platform that his fame provided and undertook a running battle with McCarthyite elements in Government. They retaliated by stripping him of his passport, summoning him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and trying him for contempt of Congress for refusing to denounce fellow leftists. Miller was catholic in his choice of antagonists, clashing just as fiercely with Communists and hoarding spiteful anecdotes about characters ranging from "Lucky" Luciano to Norman Mailer. Among...
...Emperor's day, Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris) would surely not have obtained a passport to visit the Forbidden City, let alone explore its ruler's forbidden soul. Last year, though, the director received free range of both from Pu Yi's successors, who regard his final, harmless-dodderer incarnation as an exemplary triumph for their system. The result is a film epic in length (almost three hours), vision (the reimagining of a lost and exotic world) and imagery (formal and glowing). Yet at its center is an anti-epic figure, inarticulate and victimized. The movie must...
...high, completely enclosed wooden booths with thick glass windows and heavy curtains. Out of sight, the officer rustles mysteriously through what seems to be a thick book. Then he appears to scribble furiously for a minute or two. After a final scrutiny of the traveler's face, the passport is pushed back. "Welcome to Nicaragua," says the officer, hitting a switch that opens the electronically operated exit doors. If the Sandinistas do not admit to being Communists or Marxists, they certainly understand the etiquette...