Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bent does not begin in the death camp, but on a hung-over morning after a dissolute evening of booze, cocaine and sadomasochistic pastimes. The apartment of Max and his dancer-lover Rudy (David Marshall Grant) is broken in on by Storm Troopers. The two flee but are subsequently captured. The Nazi goons begin beating Rudy viciously and order Max to do the same. He begins in utter dismay, recognizes what he has been degraded to, and in an orgy of self-loathing deals his lover the final fatal blow. To amuse themselves further, the guards then order...
After this scene begins the perilous descent into the cheap gimmickery of the fourth act. David Levi's Camillo is a barometer for the travesties of this act. Levi starts as a glorious Camillo, wonderfully obsequious to his lord but courageous enough to flee with the King of Bohemia. Levi enters the fourth act wearing a turbanlike sunbonnet and granny sunglasses, doing a mincing dance. The Adams House crowd roared...
...STARVING CAMBODIANS who are trying by the thousands to flee their country attest to the monumental tragedy that has decimated that Southeast Asian people since the terrorist regime of Pol Pot took power in 1975. Reports from the few Western journalists and relief workers who have entered Cambodia in recent months indicate that the suffering continues under the present Vietnam-dominated Heng Samrin government, which overthrew Pol Pot earlier this year...
While Hurricane David made its deadly passage through the Caribbean two weeks ago, a successor storm named Frederic dawdled not far behind. Last week, Fred suddenly turned ugly and churned northward, forcing half a million people to flee a 100-mile stretch of the coast, from Gulfport, Miss., to Pensacola...
...cocooned, it's time to escape. You can walk around the city to regain a sense of perspective, or even head for a weekend in New Hampshire or New York, or curl up with a mystery novel. Chances are, however, that you won't have much time to flee, and that you'll want to find a spot isolated from roommates typing Expos papers and neighbors blasting Springsteen out the window. Tucked away in odd corners, Harvard does provide idyllic spots for contemplation, quiet places where you can sit back for a moment and enjoy being alive...