Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skyjacking: Nixon scooped the State Department by breaking the news of a treaty with Cuba that provides for a "most severe penalty" or extradition for the piracy of planes or ships between the two countries. The U.S. retains the right to offer political asylum to Cuban refugees who steal small boats or planes without violence or extortion, but it has pledged to deal harshly with exile expeditions carried out by Cuban refugees against Cuba. Though the treaty marks the first breakthrough in relations with Cuba since 1961, Secretary of State Rogers insisted that it did not represent any general thawing...
Shuffling onto the bare, makeshift stage of Boston's Church of the Covenant, Al Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...
...Roses--Joni Mitchell (Asylum), Usually a year's love affairs provide the material for any one Joni Mitchell album. Her most recent triumph is less obsessively introspective, more poetic, and more varied in tone. Unlike the upbeat but somewhat plodding piano style of other piano and guitar-playing folk-singers, Mitchell plays richly enough and sensitively enough to make an orchestra from one instrument. Her voice--which covers so broad a range expertly that it becomes another part of the orchestra--sounds more resonant on this album, but that may be the consequence of a new record company...
...agreement, Castro insists on a promise that the U.S. will curb the activities of Cuban exile groups in Florida, which, he charges, have attacked Cuban coastline villages and fishing vessels and helped people escape from Cuba. That means that the U.S., which has always cherished its tradition of giving asylum, now must decide-whether to turn back refugees from Cuba...
...does have the sense of history all other black films lack. As a young boy matures and gains adult responsibility before his time, we witness the struggles of any individual in a racial minority to acquire a vigorous identity without getting thrown into a prison or insane asylum. This story about a black Louisiana depression family isn't overly sentimental--in fact, critics of the film have claimed the environment it etches is harsher than what they personally experienced in similar times and places and table-turning social truths more it powerfully effective. Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield stand...