Abortive
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When Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 after an
abortive
attempt by the Greek military junta in Athens to carry out Enosis (unification with Greece), 250,000 or so Greek Cypriots were uprooted from their homes.
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In one dreadfully over long sequence and injured sailor on a ship describes an
abortive
trip to 'Fog Island', whatever that is!
This movie is an abortive, stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra-bad movie.
In a pivotal scene she intervenes to stop a rape and a moron cop throws HER in jail, so after a couple cool shower scenes and some
abortive
prison-dyke seduction she has to take the law into her own hands blah blah blah.
To compound things the exercise was repeated in Martin's unfunny attempt to be Peter Seller's Inspector Clouseau, another
abortive
attempt, in my opinion, to rekindle a demonstrably unfunny career.
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