Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would go, and afterward, in his Nile Delta home village of Mit Abu el Kom, visit the grave of his brother Atif, a pilot killed on the first day of the October War. Dressed as Egypt's Supreme Commander in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform festooned with a green sash, Sadat made a traditional stop on the way to the parade, paying his respects and praying at the grave of his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, in nearby Heliopolis. Then the President climbed into an open-roofed limousine, accompanied by eight bodyguards, to join Mubarak and Defense Minister...
Mubarak's accession to the presidency this week fulfills two of Sadat's chief wishes: to see his policies continued, and one day to leave power to a member of Egypt's "October Generation," the men in uniform who helped regain Egyptian self-esteem by their initial victories in the 1973 October War. Sadat had first met Mubarak in the Sinai town of El Arish in 1950; impressed by the young air force officer, the President remembered his name two decades later while searching for a commander for his air force...
...gettin' high," says Baby Love. He is a very skinny, very small, very lethal 14-year-old. His eyes are slate gray, flashing to blue when he laughs. Mischief is etched across his face as a bittersweet smile. Like his crew, he is dressed in mugger's uniform: designer jeans, T shirt and $45 Pumas, the starched laces neatly untied. A wolf in expensive sneakers, Baby Love is a school dropout, one of more than 800,000 between the ages...
...project was routine, Schechter admits, but the results were not. Their scan revealed that rather than becoming uniform, space contains a huge, mysterious "gap." Taking representative samples, they expected to find 25 galaxies the size of the Milky Way. They found only one. Moreover, the same low density seemed to extend over an area 300 million light-years across-about 1 % of the visible universe. The finding of so little matter in so much space had cosmologists all over the world scratching their heads...
HEARTLAND is a small film, then, lent a kind of grandeur by its setting and the cheerful, unassuming invincibility of its characters. Blessed with the warmth and goodness of home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...