Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break through the film's hard crust of mediocrity is a tribute to their collective talent and bravura. Brilliantly manipulating a spectrum of emotions from pastoral innocence to manic depression to pulsating sexuality, Streep may very well clinch the third Oscar of her career as the little--lost--activist. Once again, her most appealing characteristic is her chameleon-like control of facial expression. In one of the film's most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing has any effect), Schepisi moves directly from a shot of a glamourous Susan...
...leader of the newest wave, and the fastest-rising star in the political firmament today, is Hu Qili (pronounced Chee-lee), 55, a gifted Communist Youth League activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level...
...Europe, and then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City. He is the U.S. bishops' representative on the worldwide council of Anglican and Episcopal churches. A friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, Browning has invited the South African black activist to his Jan. 11 installation as Presiding Bishop. Last week's Anaheim meeting ushered in the Browning era by voting for divestment of holdings in firms that do business in South Africa, and by expressing a readiness to have women as bishops...
...glad to have the experience so I definitely know what not to do," said the divestment activist...
...South Africa is already such a pariah. Few identify it with structural problems of the system. Vietnam was different. You had bad guys all over the place," says activist Ball...