Word: bourgeoise
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The East Germans are truly Germans in at least one other respect-their stolidly bourgeois preoccupation with food and comfort. Recently the East Berlin regime began a concerted effort to increase the quantity and quality of consumer goods. Since Honecker exhorted the party in 1971-"to increase the material and...
Mike Kennedy, a San Francisco lawyer, states flatly, "I look at the court system with total skepticism. Not a chance that it can be reformed." Kennedy holds that the basic principles of the court system have come into conflict with the realities of American life. "We're at a time...
The exhibition forever annihilates the notion of Duchamp as enfant terrible breaking windows in the temple of art. From the beginning, Marcel, the son of an haul bourgeois notary in Rouen, was recognized as a prodigy. At 17 he joined his brothers in Paris to study art; in a 1904...
State of Siege. Costa-Gavras' latest political drama (following Z and The Confession) written by Franco Solinas who scripted The Battle of Algiers. Yves Montand has the sort of impeccably cool, unimpeachable face which is perfect for the part he plays. His role is recognizably based on the life and...
Memories of Under development. The first feature from socialist Cuba to reach the United States; it arrived only after Nixon administration attempts to stop the film's importation failed. Director Tomas Alea's work examines the reaction of a bourgeois intellectual to the revolutionizing of Cuba and its culture. Allston...