Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentine military, Contras have bombed ports, bridges, and petroleum tanks. But in spite of these measures, they have not captured a single town in the country. Their two-year-old front along Nicaragua's Southern border has collapsed, and most of the 15,000 guerillas have scattered in retreat...
...rebut the accusations and called them a plot to "destroy us." But he does live well, even as he pleads poverty on the air and lays off some 500 employees (as he did weeks ago). He tools around in a Mercedes, and he and Tammy have a $449,000 retreat in Palm Springs...
...lessons. There are people like the historical Huey and the fictional Pete who wear their amorality glamorously, who have the ability to move the practice of politics out of smoke-filled rooms and into the chambers of the yearning human heart. Conventional political morality, to which both these films retreat in good-hearted confusion, is inadequate to deal with such creatures. Art conceivably is. But today, media far more devious than a radio mike await the next Huey Long. To take the measure of his threat, art will have to be shrewder and more sensitive than either of these movies...
Strolling through the peaceful vegetable gardens and fruit trees at his country retreat 40 miles outside the capital city, Maseru, Lesotho's Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan early last week was the picture of self-confidence. Yes, admitted the Prime Minister, his country had been shaken by a 19-day ) blockade by South Africa, which completely surrounds the mountainous kingdom (pop. 1.5 million). But Chief Jonathan, 71, who had ruled Lesotho (pronounced Leh-sue-too) in an increasingly autocratic manner since its independence from Britain in 1966, smoothly dismissed rumors that his government might be toppled by a military takeover...
...hopeless fight for Lowry and Jill, as each mishap and misadventure complicates their lives. As if in self-defense, Lowry begins to retreat into his own mind. In his dreams, the stormtroopers who beat him become massive, fantastic samurai fighters with whom he does battle. His fellow employees and the kingpins of his mother's high-society existence become orc-like creatures who are dragging Jill in a cage. The myriad ducts which encroach upon his apartment become snakes which attack him, and his mother, who has been getting progressively more drastic facelifts, appears looking like his daughter...