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...last week were continuing a prolonged attack against a garrison of 150 to 200 national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir. Bragged an F.M.L.N. commander: "The puppet forces of the dictatorship do not have a coherent strategy to combat our forces. They are confused as to whether they should concentrate and fight us or disperse into smaller groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The U.S. Stays the Course | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...Rowing a rowboat without using the oarlocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahhhhhh Wilderness! | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...works in a dinner jacket tailored on Savile Row-one of ten that hang in his closet. Still, he is quite certain that he is, was and always has been a saloon singer. But then, for all anyone knows, the Queen Elizabeth II may think of herself as a rowboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Saga of a Saloon Singer | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Three or four sharks, who appear to fill the occasional lapses when our young stars decide they have had enough of each other. The sharks, one of whom somehow manages to steal the oars to the only rowboat in paradise, scare only the parts of the audience that have seen Jaws, a classic case of guilt by association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

...most curious mix of the real and the absurd, the naturalistic and the impressionistic is a French film based on the diary of a coupe who attempted to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. The story of their failure both to make the journey or to happily coexist is haunting and moving, replete with terrifying violence and strange sexual fantasies, ending finally with their rediscovered love...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Animated Characters | 1/31/1980 | See Source »

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