Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second CIA-sponsored effort in Iraq involved the I.N.C. An Erbil-based umbrella group founded in 1992, the congress included 19 Iraqi and Kurdish organizations. "The CIA financed the group but did not direct its activities," says an agency official. The I.N.C.'s main tasks were to gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents. Two years ago, it published a fake issue of Babil, the daily newspaper owned by Saddam's eldest son Uday. The expertly counterfeited copy, distributed for one day in Baghdad, exposed many of Saddam's atrocities. The tactic backfired, however, because readers were more frightened than...
...combines hate, humbleness and irony as he retorts to Nick's accusation: "Because you're going to hump Martha, I'm disgusting?" The only break in Ayres' intensity occurred in the scene when George shoots Martha with what seems at first to be a shotgun, but releases only an umbrella; because of prop difficulties, Ayres had to shake the gun and quickly urge the gag out of the barrel--not quite the passionate moment it was supposed...
Under the umbrella of Western protection, two rival Kurd factions, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, began fighting two years ago over who would control the area. Last year the U.S. brokered a cease-fire between the groups, but that collapsed in late July...
...grandmother. By the time he was eight or so, he had calmed down and was generally more reflective than Harry. He also showed precocious self-possession. With his ancient great-grandmother he is a model little gentleman, helping to guide her down church steps and holding the umbrella over her head...
Totalitarian tackiness extends to every aspect of this lighter-than-air film. The plot is lovingly predictable. Sixteen year old Genvieve (Catherine Deneuve) is leered at by almost every male in the village of Cherbourg where she works in her mother's umbrella store. She falls for the earnestly handsome automechanic Guy(Nino Castelnuovo) who ruins everything by being drafted. Before leaving for Algeria, he somewhat deviously impregnates her, perhaps to be sure she'll 'wait for him'. But his plan backfires when the pregnant, helpless Genvieve is married off to the rich, wolf-like diomand dealer Roland Cassard (Marc...