Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone. His courtship of heiress Ellin Mackay, granddaughter of an owner of the Comstock Lode, was breathlessly followed in the press, and their secret marriage in 1926, over her father's vigorous objections, made headlines. It also made standards like Always...
...alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility, as part of a campaign to rid Africa of "all military colonial forces...
...August 23, 1939, Germany and Russia signed a pact that included a secret agreement to partition eastern Europe, including Poland, between them. A few weeks after signing the agreement, the Red Army rolled into a Poland already prostrate from the German blitzkrieg. The Soviets deported thousands of Poles--including 14,500 officers--to Russian labor camps. Their motives are not difficult to discern; they wished to short-circuit any future Polish leadership...
Bewildered by the deaths Sutherland who teaches Afrikaaner history to schoolboys, begins looking into the incidents. Soon convinced the two were murdered by the South African secret police, he seeks help from a liberal lawyer named Ian McKenzie played by Marlon Brando. (Yes Brando...
Technically, Palcy is most impressive during the hazy, back-lit courtroom scene midway through the film. Moving effortlessly from angle to angle she builds a brilliant encounter between Brando and Jurgen Prochnow, who plays Captain Stolz of the secret police. Palcy delivers a particularly effective shot of Brando after the judge announces his verdict. While commotion breaks out around the defeated lawyer, he sits immobile, quietly mumbling "fuck" over and over again...