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...million as uncertain of its future as at any other time since its ill-fated first attempt to hold multiparty voting four years ago. Then, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.) won the first round of legislative elections, which the army aborted. Cheated of victory and outlawed, F.I.S. went underground and splintered into violent armed groups whose struggle to overthrow the military plunged the country into a bloodbath...
...trip to Harvard was far from all business. He was taken to a dinner at the Kennedy School penthouse, and later to a party at an underground fraternity...
Though the Loker Commons are located underground, they are bright and airy. The wood paneling, in contrast to the Great Hall upstairs, is a pale shade...
...that the best way to serve his country "was to prepare myself to become a farmer." He graduated with that ambition still intact, but World War II forced him to postpone his plans to study hydraulic engineering at the University of California. Instead he joined the Haganah, the Jewish underground army (to which his mother had also belonged), and was swiftly invited by the swashbuckling Moshe Dayan, then a young commander, to join the Palmach, an elite strike force...
Araki is the latest to emerge from the underground of gay filmmakers, after Todd Haynes (Safe) and Gus Van Sant (To Die For). But Hollywood will find it hard to assimilate him. The Doom Generation is Araki's fifth feature, and his way of maturing is to get more ferocious, with a twisted smile on his face. The road-movie plot is similar to The Living End's: a dishy, disturbed guy hitches a ride and raises hell with guns and other toys. The troublemaker is Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech)--call him X, as in sex--and when he hooks...