Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is not exactly true?as you can imagine?but the important point for us is that they [the generals] want sugar [a common term for payoffs], and for that they are ready to do almost anything." If that is true, the scheme would tend to bear out one of the ugliest suspicions of business critics: corporate bribery encourages poor nations to spend cash on military equipment they do not really need...
There is, therefore, no fundamental conflict between the interests of Americans and third world citizens. The tremendous productivity by which Americans earn their wealth will also help the underdeveloped nations to climb out of poverty, if only given a chance. The goodwill Americans bear towards the third world is exemplified at this moment by the millions of dollars of aid they are voluntarily donating to the victims of the disastrous Guatemalan earthquake. (At the very same time the imperialistc governments of Cuba and the Soviet Union are spending billions to colonize Angola, a goal they have given much toward...
...name of survival; he will seduce the commandant (Shirley Stoller) in order to eat. In a series of pathetic but comic scenes which show that Pasqualino's mad scheme derives as much from his vanity as from his desperation, he attempts to bring his Neapolitan charm to bear on the ogress, despite the ravages his misfortunes have wreaked on his appearance. Whistling, winking, and blowing kisses as if he were on an Italian street corner, Pasqualino hums a southern love song as he adjusts his striped prisoner's cap to a rakish angle above his sunken cheeks, hoping to entice...
Wertmuller's inability to represent political choices in a meaningful way reflects the violently anti-political thrust of her work. In each of her films, political principles are beliefs that characters adhere to abstractly, and which bear no relation to their lives. In fact, as her films unfold it becomes apparent that the characters' political principles are in conflict with their lifestyles; when they discover this contradiction, they abandon politics for the things that really make Wertmuller's universe revole; sex, emotions, and material ambition...
...change has certainly not been total or unchallenged. Twenty-two years later, neither the authorities who are interpreting the law nor the children who are often asked to bear its burden yet agree on the manner in which desegregation should be carried out. Nonetheless the law stands: an act of collective conscience. By making it clear at the end of 800-plus pages that on one spring day in 1954 Warren spoke not only for the court but for the U.S., Kluger has performed another kind of simple justice...