Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also do occasional excellent non-message films. Actress-Writer-Producer Patra-vadee Sritrairat, 28, a bright and beautiful newcomer, has made a sensitive movie called Games that is the sophisticated story of a triangular bisexual love affair. A splashy sidelight of the industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters...
...crane has backed into it, and Jacobsen can't bring it back," Peter Shenk, a critic of a Harvard plan to build an underground library at the University-owned Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, said last April. Shenk, a former Dumbarton Oaks gardener who mounted a successful campaign to block the planned construction, claimed the excavation would damage the estate's famous gardens. Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen claimed the construction would cause no permanent damage to the garden...
...Spanish opposition, which includes 200 or more separate parties and splinter groups, is not overly impressed with the constitutional reforms. For one thing, critics note that the equal powers of the reactionary Upper House apparently involve the authority to block any legislation proposed by the popularly elected assembly. For another, they wonder about how much power the opposition parties will really have while even anti-Communists believe that the Communist Party-which might command only 10% of the votes-should be legalized, although the government argues that it is "too soon." "This 'constitutional reform' is nothing more than...
Manhattan Cable, which provides equipment and basic instruction to anyone who asks for it, airs some 800 hours of programming a month, including Chinese language movies, Boy Scout activities, League of Women Voters shows, block parties and a Bulgarian hour. (Only twelve of those hours went to Midnight Blue when it was on.) New York State law specifically states that cable companies carrying public-access broadcasts shall have no say in program content and absolves them from all liability for such content, including obscenity. But the FCC regulations, while also barring content control, provide that cable companies "shall establish rules...
...avenue and not easily spotted by the unknowledgeable. "Most of our customers are celebrities," says Piero Nuti, general manager of Ferragamo. "We seldom see anyone else." Silversmith Ugo Buccellati is happiest when his sales force entertains only two customers a day. Gucci, which has two boutiques on the same block, spurns lunch-hour shoppers by simply closing for lunch-an Italian tradition that Manager Antonio Cagliarini explains is "good for the employees and for our type of business. Our regular customers know we're closed, and that's it, finito...