Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your issue "The Spoils of War" did a good job of elucidating what a tragic story a world at war creates. One realizes what a fragile bond it is that makes us humans first and nations second. It seems that nationalism bolstered by propaganda outweighs our natural instinct for survival. One can only hope that out of the ashes of war will rise a phoenix of peace...
...task. Similarly, only one staffer is involved full time with Operation Fair Share, a campaign of selective boycotts aimed at corporations that refuse to integrate their boards or commit themselves to hiring more blacks. The organization also has had trouble recruiting top-caliber staffers. Says Board Member Julian Bond: "Working for the N.A.A.C.P. is no longer a plum for well-qualified blacks...
Israel Horovitz's screenplay relies too heavily on standard cliches and observations. The relationship between Ivan (a Broadway playwright played by Pacino) and his extended family (five kids, only one of whom is really his) never develops. The existence of an eccentric bond between adult and children remains a given throughout. Unlike the blossoming affection between Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry in Kramer vs. Kramer, this arrangement seems static...
...second appearance with British Thriller Writer John Gardner as his author, James Bond remains irresistible to women and, considering his advancing age, pretty agile outside the boudoir...
...current caper revives SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, which Bond supposedly felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies...