Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daylight spread across the urban battlefield, the fires died down over West Beirut, but huge columns of smoke in amazingly varied tints of white, gray and black roiled sky ward. The shelling continued, moving forward into West Beirut just ahead of the advancing Israeli troops...
...hours later Frey points to a white speck in the sky, and I watch an Israeli pilot float gently to the ground. For a few minutes it looks as if he is going to land in the foothills, where he would be picked up by his own people. Then I see the pilot disappear into the city...
Under the cover of darkness last Wednesday night, the invading Iranian forces of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini launched a large-scale artillery barrage that lit the eastern sky. Tanks rushed forward in long columns, flanked on either side by Iranian Revolutionary Guards carrying rifles with fixed bayonets. Thus resumed the fierce battle for Basra, Iraq's second largest city, which lies only 14 miles from the Iran-Iraq border. Once again the fighting involved tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, and in scope and intensity resembled the desert battles of World War II. The Iraqi forces...
...front in a small military convoy of Land Rovers. The mist rising from the Shatt al Arab waterway is steamy, the sky so luminous that it seems ready to burst into flame. There was shelling during the night from the Iranian artillery five miles away, but people seem unperturbed as they open their shops, till their fields and move cargoes along the waterway in long, canoe-shaped dhows...
...undulations of plot-mistaken identities, furtive meetings in a forest haunted by impish spirits, a magic ride across the midsummer night sky, even an arrow that pierces the heart of one swain (Tony Roberts)-are meant to recall Shakespeare's Dream. Ingmar Bergman painted a lovely gloss on the subject in Smiles of a Summer Night. So why can't Allen have more fun with it? No film labeled a sex comedy should offer the truism "Marriage is the death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody...