Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian cinema, the recent excesses of Fellini, Antonioni, et al notwithstanding. The Taviani brothers' first film to receive international attention, it features a host of mind-gripping sequences destined to set apart "Padre, Padrone" as one of the most important films to cross the Atlantic in the late 1970s. To name only two: the unforgettable series of shots capturing the varied expressions of a village's collective lust, from a young boy sodomizing a mule to the rusty sex rites of an aged couple; or the scenes showing how far the "spare the rod" philosophy of rearing is literally taken...
...aluminum for its strategic stockpile, an excess supply overhung the market, depressing prices. As Duncan Campbell, vice president of Montreal-based Alcan, which sells more than a quarter of its production in the U.S., puts it, "We went through our garden of Gethsemane in most of the 1970s basically because of oversupply. We were gouging each other's eyes out." A costly lesson was learned...
...some sort of Palestinian homeland on the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians simply do not believe him, apparently, and their present view is born of a rising desperation. "They are running out of space," reports Correspondent Brelis. "Having been expelled from Jordan by King Hussein in the early 1970s, they find themselves no longer welcome in Lebanon. Having been battered by the Lebanese Christians and even their Syrian sponsors in the Lebanese civil war, they now find themselves being pummeled by the Israelis, while Syria's 30,000 troops in the country just lean on their weapons. They face...
...thing, until the latest raid, Palestinian terrorist activity inside Israel had not been particularly heavy in recent months. Moreover, since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area. Also, U.S. officials point out, no "security zone," however it is policed, can offer Israel much additional protection from determined attack by fanatic Palestinian guerrillas. In fact, the attackers who seized the bus on the highway to Tel Aviv struck not across the Lebanese border but from...
What gives socialist rhetoric much of its current appeal is the economic battering the world's economy has taken in the 1970s. Against the backdrop of seemingly incurable inflation, unemployment, industrial stagnation and volatile currencies, a clarion for an economic restructuring sounds attractive. Socialist states have not solved?only hidden or ameliorated?these problems. Ironically, at the very moment of its spectacular advances, socialism faces profound new crises of its own. At the same time socialism has become a word appropriated by so many different champions and causes that it threatens to become meaningless, and a new effort is needed...