Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly ironic" that today's writers have abandoned the realism that made American literature so successful in the 1930s, Wolfe said, and added that "realism was the first form of literature that made people...
Another famous verdict of the 1930s was reversed-and officially so-when Alabama Governor George Wallace signed a full pardon for Clarence Norris, 64, believed to be the last survivor of the "Scottsboro Boys." Norris was 19 when he and eight other black youths were hauled off a freight train, prosecuted for raping two white women and quickly sentenced to death. It was a verdict that aroused worldwide protest and involved years of appeals. After five years on death row, Norris was reprieved, served another ten years in prison, won a parole, then fled to New York, where...
...fact that Chiang Ch'ing's wreath at Mao's funeral had been signed "your student and comrade-in-arms." One wall poster in Shanghai bluntly accused Mao's widow-a onetime movie actress-with having been a prostitute in Shanghai in the 1930s...
...torch of the Statue of Liberty, prefiguring the brilliant kitch Americana of the Mt. Rushmore scene in North Dy Northwest. Among the gems in Sabotage are Oscar Homolka as a magnificent agent of foreign powers and an undisclosible suspence sequence in which Hitchcock totally outraged the sentimental expectations of 1930s film audiences, particularly in America. Showing with Sabotage is Murder, a rarely shown Hitchcock from 1930, which should be great if it is anything like Blackmail (1929), its predecessor and the first British talkie...
Oshima extrapolated the film from a real incident. In Tokyo in the 1930s, a prostitute concluded her love affair with a gangster by castrating him, then wandered the streets for several days carrying his severed sex organs. Haunted by Genet and Mishima, animated by memories of De Sade, Oshima splashes a devious course to this bloody resolution. He has the gangster and the whore coupling incessantly, in attitudes reminiscent of the delicate rough-and-tumble of erotic Japanese watercolors. The point of all this-that the full realization of passion is its own justification, that death is the ultimate orgasm...