Word: australian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Secretary of State or Vice President-without any real evidence. In Latin America, there were warm talks with Argentine President Alejandro Agustin Lanusse and Peruvian dictator Juan Velasco Alvarado, but nothing concrete seemed to come out of the discussions. The inconclusive pattern continued in Australia and New Zealand. One Australian Minister called Connally a "high-powered Averell Harriman, only more impressive." Diplomats in Washington say he has proved to be a shrewd observer and called his mission a success as far as it went...
This was not the case for the Australian Ross Terrill. He not only reports the major issues in his book The 800,000,000, but also provides political, cultural, and historical background necessary to evaluate the significance of the developments he reports. Both a scholar and a journalist. Terrill had been to China briefly in 1964: last summer he was invited to return for forty days. As a scholar and a writer, he had at least three angles from which to view his hosts. First, there was history. Because he was familiar with Chinese history, he could compare the circumstances...
...panels in Siena whose painted demons have been scratched to obliteration by pious fingernails; the Mona Lisa has been stoned. Last week, in one of the most vicious examples of vandalism to date, Michelangelo's Vatican Pieta was almost ritually assaulted by a 33-year-old Hungarian-born Australian geologist who cried: "I am Jesus Christ...
...Australia's largest city probably flicked to Channel 10 that night in March to see what the action was. Most of them have stayed there ever since, and No. 96, a kind of salacious Peyton Place, has not only jumped to the top of the ratings but changed Australian nighttime habits. Even at posh parties hostesses expect half their guests to hover around the set while the show...
...station to produce a program that appeals to a mass market and makes money. That is all we set out to do." In fact, the production is amateurish, with spotty acting and poor camera work and direction to match the inane script. Still, so overwhelming has been its Australian success that the producers are looking for export markets. Because the show is black and white-and slightly blue -the U.S., perhaps fortunately, is not on the sales list...