Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot. De Funès appears as a racist bourgeois, a prideful Catholic preparing for his daughter's wedding. His chauffeur, who is Jewish, has relatives arriving from New York. There is a car accident, but the chauffeur refuses to help, since it is after sun down Friday-the start of the Sabbath, when Orthodox Jews do not work-so De Funès must extricate himself all on his own. Meanwhile, near the crash scene a gang of Middle Eastern terrorists chases after one of their political leaders, trying to torture information about the underground...
...been tried and sentenced to death; 162 others have been given prison sentences ranging from three years to life. Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow the government. Among them: former President Yun Po Sun, 76, Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, and the Rev. Park Hyung Kyoo, 51, deeply respected pastor of Seoul's Cheil Presbyterian Church. All accepted the summary sentences with moving dignity. Said Yun: "I ask you one question. Is it a crime to help democracy...
...through western Colorado and Utah and into Nevada, I learned that Ed, our driver, had left Cleveland a couple of days earlier. He had tired of his work there, so he had placed all his belongings in the trunk of his 1963 Chevrolet and was heading west. As the sun rose we pulled into Reno, where Ed wanted to stop for a while to check out the possibilities of getting a job as a croupier in one of the casinos. He went into a gas station rest room, changed from his wrinkled shirt and stained Levis into a nice fresh...
...foreign surroundings. And as soon as they are installed in the new situation they feel alien and misplaced, as though torn from some childhood Eden. So they move on, settling elsewhere in a vain effort to resurrect the shade of the trees on their childhood street and the sun-bright dust on the local ball field...
...dune, only to be greeted by Winnie's cheerful, "My, what a pleasant surprise." The impropriety of his wife's politely jovial remark seems to do Willie in, while Winnie is left operating out of her optimism, happily awaiting the day she is melted away by the sun...