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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Innocence (Argentine Sono Film; Kingsley) is a shadowed, subtle, intense study of purity, sin and degeneracy. A shy, beautiful girl (Elsa Daniel) comes to adolescence in the Argentina of the late '20s. A fanatically puritanical mother has kept Ana from worldly knowledge in the most rigid Latin-American tradition. She is not allowed to see even her own nakedness-she wears a smock when she bathes. Her nanny describes flatly the penalty for unmentioned sins: "Your body will burn for evermore...
...Fits, It Fits." To younger generations, who hummed and danced through the '40s and '50s in the amiable glow of Rodgers and Hammerstein, it sometimes came as a surprise that Hammerstein had an earlier, equally prodigious career in the operettas of the '20s. Son of Variety House Manager William Hammerstein and grandson of Oscar Hammerstein I, the Johnny Appleseed of grand opera who roamed the world founding new Covent Gardens, Manhattan-born Oscar II contributed to varsity shows at Columbia University (class of '17), was barely in his 30s when he had written the lyrics...
...avoid an even bigger land bust than in the '20s, concludes HOUSE & HOME, cities and towns must act fast. Most experts agree that "the first point of attack should be to ease the too-heavy tax burden on houses and other improvements, multiply the too-easy tax load on unimproved land, and make the unearned increment in land prices provide much more of the taxes needed to provide the streets, water, sewers and schools without which unimproved land would be neither livable nor salable...
...banana-union bosses who stopped in en route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed a Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth and donned Sierra Maestra-type khaki uniforms. In Bogota, rioting pro-Castro students burned Uncle Sam in effigy...
...threshold of the '20s and the new era of uncorseted freedom for women. The simple clothes Coco wanted to make were exactly what women were waiting for. She introduced the tricot sailor frock, the turtleneck sweater and the pullover, shortened skirts and heels for comfort, flattened chests to create a lithe, boyish look...