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...Harvard Film Archive. The films are a merciless attack on Turkey’s government, which Guney considered fascist, and its culture, which he considered primitive and self-destructive. Yol, which won Guney a Palme D’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, follows five prisoners on furlough as they travel home and witness the ills imposed on the Turkish people by their government, military and customs. Guney wrote and edited the Yol while he himself was in prison, enlisting Serif Goren to do the actual filming. All three films have been newly subtitled in English...
...rinds mode: An exuberant populist condescension used to overwhelm Bush's WASPiness around election time and dispatch him on missions of good-natured political slumming. He sang along to country music. In every public square, he hammered away at big, cheap themes: 1) Willie Horton, the Black Monster on Furlough; 2) Read My Lips, No New Taxes; and 3) Uncouth Radicals Want to Burn Your Flag...
...were again working late because it was during the furlough and Jennifer Palmieri . . . had ordered pizza along with Ms. Currie and Ms. Hernreich. And when the pizza came, I went down to let them know that the pizza was there and it was at that point when I walked into Ms. Currie's office that the President was standing there with some other people discussing something...
...back there with a pizza" during the government shutdown. He said, however, that he did not believe that the two of them were alone. Testifying before the grand jury on August 17, 1998, the President said that his first "real conversation" with Ms. Lewinsky occurred during the November 1995 furlough. He testified: "One night she brought me some pizza. We had some remarks...
...maybe except for the platinum-blond streaks in his dark hair, dyed for a new movie role. His once bloodshot eyes seem clear and focused. The famous six-stitch gash he received in a vicious prison brawl is virtually undetectable on his still boyish face, thanks to a controversial furlough that allowed him to visit a plastic surgeon. And though he initially insisted that no questions about jail be asked, he not only appears comfortable but is also downright chatty about some of his prison experiences...