Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marty have no choice. They must return again to the scene of their first intervention in history, that high school dance that climaxed Future I. All along this story line, Marty has been encountering variations on himself, his progenitors and heirs. But when he is reinserted into this moment in time and starts to meet himself and the situations of the previous movie, Back to the Future II ceases to be a sequel. It becomes instead a kind of fugue, brilliantly varying and expanding on previously stated themes. And it accomplishes this while retaining its powerful narrative drive...
...grim central image of modern spy literature is the death of Alec Leamas, shot by G.D.R. Grenzpolizisten at the Wall in the last scene of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. John le Carre's bleak and entirely believable novel was published in 1963, only two years after the East German regime built the Wall. Since then, Le Carre's surviving operatives and those of Len Deighton, another notable English spymaster, have made dodgy livings evading Vopos at the Wall, armed with little but false passports and the turned-up collars of their raincoats...
...nation's foremost opponent of environmental neglect and genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet. The scene happens to be a meeting of the Humane Society in Houston, but the wager, which is part of his script, could just as easily be offered to a gathering of born-again environmentalists in Aspen, Colo.; at the Los Angeles home of TV producer Norman Lear; or on a college campus. Jeremy Rifkin bets that no one can answer this question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value, a value that...
Gray clouds, cold weather and choppy seas set the scene for the talks, being conducted aboard U.S. and Soviet warships anchored in the harbor off the coast of this Mediterranean island. Malta's entire 1200-member military and most of its 1000 police were out in force to protect the superpower leaders...
...scene began with five seconds left to play in the first period and Colgate defenseman Allan Brown serving time for a holding infraction. The teams were lining for a face-off to the right of the Red Raider goalie Dave Gagnon when Ciavaglia gave the signal...