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Khayyam
Abadan
We take pleasure...
Leisure in Abadan? Sure. In 1969.
By White Cloud
The best shot in the arm and boost to the adrenalin is the flicks. A
color film on a rectangular screen with the sound of music, surrounded
by the darkening evening sky full of stars makes the Hollywood opiate work
like a charm.
Seated on tubular chairs with feet resting on the empty canvas chair
in front, and with a good stretch of the imagination, you could be sitting
in the over-stuffed plush seats of Joshua Logan or Elia Kazan or Billy
Wilder's private home cinema. Only the orange flares on your right place
you squarely in Abadan at the Naft Club. On evenings when the film is a
lemon, you can look up and watch the stars... GO TO FEATURE
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Anyway
She's back
Believe it or not, Delkash is on a concert tour. She is currently in
London and will be singing at other European cities as well.
Delkash, whose singing career peaked in the 1950s, lives in Iran where
female singers can only perform for female audiences at private gatherings.
I don't know if she has any concert plans in the U.S. I hope she does.
If you want to hear some of her old songs, click
here.
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* Film: Dariush Mehrjui in Columbus,
Ohio
Dariush Mehrjui introduces THE PEAR TREE (1998)
Wexner Center for the Arts
Ohio State University
Sunday, Nov 15 / 2 pm
Special Admission Price: $7; $5 Wexner members, students, etc.
Immediately following his retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln
Center in New York, Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui comes to the Wexner
Center in Columbus, Ohio, to present his most recent film THE PEAR TREE,
which Variety described as "a lush, golden evocation of first
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Most reformists who sought
to run for a key assembly that chooses Iran's spiritual leader -- the country's
most powerful position -- have been rejected by hard-liners. The list of
candidates, published Wednesday, is evidence of the overriding clout of
the hard-liners in Iran's clerical government, where President Mohammad
Khatami and a small group of moderates are struggling to ease social and
political restrictions ... FULL TEXT
Names of approved candidates
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Names of official candidates
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Human Rights Watch calls for release of
Iranian journalist
New York, October 7, 1998 - In an open letter sent today to the
Head of the Judiciary in Iran, Ayatollah Yazdi, Human Rights Watch called
for the immediate and unconditional release of four journalists from the
daily newspaper Tous, who were arrested on the order of a Revolutionary
Court on September 16... FULL TEXT
Mobil attacks U.S. stance on Iran
ALMATY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. oil major Mobil
slammed the United States' position on energy investment in Iran on Wednesday,
saying that Washington's reluctance to do business with Tehran was ``doing
more harm than good.''... FULL TEXT
Iran plans major presence at Asian Games
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Iranian sportsmen and women
are taking part in 27 different events at the upcoming Asian Games in Thailand.
And all of them will be tested for any trace of performance enhancers ...
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"Shah" will be made - director
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - "Shah" a film orginally-based
on a book written by Masoud Behnoud has faced numerous obstacles during
production. But director Kiumars Pourahmad insists that he will make the
film (also known as "Cabinet") no matter what... FULL TEXT IN
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Make-believe oasis
Abadan can pull at your heart strings when you
remember only the good times in fine weather by the tall palm trees fringing
the blue sky and when today is the first day of the rest of your life in
a make-believe desert oasis.
White Cloud
"We
take pleasure..."
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Oct, 7 1998
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