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...national movie idol, a world-class moviemaker and a convicted murderer. There are many, in Turkey and in the international film community, who believe that these three eminences are related. Güney is a firebrand of his country's intellectual left. His films-slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous-smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion. For these heresies and others, Güney has spent half of his adult life in prison. In 1974, while filming a scene in a crowded restaurant in Adana, Güney and his wife were insulted...
...with a bad crossbite is drinking black coffee and waiting for a blueberry muffin, another guy with a German accent is hunched over a plate of fried eggs and toast, and a third customer is sipping at a lime rickey and watching his raw hamburger patty start to smolder. That's close to capacity for The Tasty--only three or four stools around the tiny counter are empty. But that Kennedy St. counter, sandwiched between Varsity Liquor and the Wursthaus, is the only restaurant in the Square that does business all night. If it's three in the morning...
Ferndale and Harper Woods, nine miles from downtown, are battered. Although the death toll is low, at least a third of the population of 43,000 of the two towns have been wounded. In front yards, suburbanites watch tree trunks smolder. Because the havoc is not total, the prospect of civil disorder may be great. Hospitals are intact, with doctors on duty and painkillers in stock. But from all over the city, 600,000 injured are begging or simply seizing the tiny supply of medical aid. Hysteria spreads as drivers crowd all three major highways leading from...
...Brotherhood does not have a large following of its own in Syria, but has been directing an increasingly fierce terrorist campaign. Religious friction continues to smolder. Although the country is predominantly Sunni Muslim, Assad's minority Alawite sect dominates the government and armed forces. Assad has also been challenged by elements in his own military, most recently in January, when some 150 officers in elite air force and armored units were arrested on charges of plotting a coup. Still, Western diplomats in the Middle East believe that Assad remains in command. There were no signs last week that...
...they bust will be out on bail, back on her back within an hour and any felonious punk can plea-bargain grand-theft-auto down to a citation for speeding. The vice squad is not expected to put out the fire, just to keep it down to a dark smolder...