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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the look of the battle positions in southern Lebanon, that day is nowhere in sight. Danger and death remain close for the Palestinians and the Israelis. Riding back to Beirut, we could not forget Zghayar's promise that he would be shelling Israel's northern settlements should an invasion begin
...March 31, Lewellyn withdrew $500,000 in $100 bills from the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, and vanished from sight. He had parked the Jeep at the Des Moines municipal airport. On the front seat he left two books: the Bible and the autobiography of a reformed check forger entitled Catch...
Roche, lanky, Dublin-born and taciturn, shrugs off all discussion of style, let alone postmodernism. A spreading architectural fashion, postmodernism seeks to reconnect functional glass-box modern with historic architecture. Says Roche: "I don't see history as an issue. I never lost sight of it. At a time when most American architecture students were taught to disdain the lessons of the past, I had to draw acanthus leaves and the classic columns. Back in Dublin, we got rigid, old-fashioned Ecole des Beaux-Arts training...
...denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue her out of our sight; she runs into the street and collapses, a knife in her back. So far, fine: the sequence has pace, atmosphere, humor, suspense. But the questioning child in every moviegoer wants to know more. Why the bare feet? Why the smile? Why the Metro? Beineix isn't interested...
Death has no sting. It is the custom for an Enu to go out of sight to die-conveniently underground. From sheer boredom the inhabitants invent their wars, like board games. They do not even care if they win. Winning can be a problem. "Win a war and you have to make the enemy do your will," the Enu Defense Minister complains. "What will? We have no will. We even lack a will to live. We no longer need...