Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweden's most prominent citizen fled into exile last April. "1 was on the edge of madness," says Director Ingmar Bergman. "For the first time in my life, the movie theater in my mind dimmed its lights. I slept without dreams. I was choking ... gasping for air. I had no choice but to flee." Harassed by Swedish tax authorities, Bergman and his wife Ingrid settled in Munich, where he began working on his first non-Swedish film...
Exotic Externals. The roots of Naropa go back to 1959, when Chogyam fled the Communist takeover of Tibet and went to England to study Western culture at Oxford. Once there, he decided to wear Western clothes, to "do away with exotic externals, which were too fascinating to students in the West." The next step: marriage to a 16-year-old English girl. At that heresy against celibacy, his followers in the United Kingdom rebelled, and Chogyam decided to try America...
...such new wonder drugs as penicillin during World War II, medical research rode forward on a wave of federal funding. Sooner or later it was going to track down God, dissect him, and put a schematic of His vitals in a special anatomy text appendix. God seems to have fled the scene, though--the Great Dissection never came...
...cheap Boston hotel room. Mrs. Garment, who wrote scripts for ABC'S mystery drama The Edge of Night, had been under treatment for depression for eight weeks in a Manhattan psychiatric clinic. She checked herself out to spend Thanksgiving with her family, then fled from home eleven days later and disappeared...
...coup provided the Communists with their biggest influx of recruits in a decade: an estimated 600 to 1,000 student leftists who fled Bangkok and began training in "liberated" zones and in neighboring Laos. It also polarized Thai politics. "Before the coup," says one Thai counterinsurgency expert, "there were four channels open to anyone with a complaint: Parliament, the newspapers, government officials and the Communists. Now there are only two: the government or the guerrillas...