Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet Room at the White House, where most of the budget was threshed out with the President, Carter had to confront himself-surely one of his most difficult tasks. He is at least two people in budget matters. He is the parsimonious Depression-ridden small-town boy, the self-made millionaire out to work and save and waste not. But he is, too, the evangelical populist, bora again to minister to the needy. The contention of these two Jimmy Carters has confounded the experts for a year because a different Carter seemed to win out on different days...
...lines of character and desperation are simply and painfully sketched. A young boy watches his mother become a prostitute in order to get a work permit she needs to feed her family. A man tries to participate in an illegal strike. Another watches his father die because he couldn't call an ambulance--there are few telephones in the black townships. They are stories that ring true, stories that have been told often enough by black South Africans. But they are still powerful, dramatic episodes; the audience is forced to come to terms once again with what systematically imposed injustice...
Joey Cornblit is a nice Jewish boy from Miami, and his mother has a complaint. Her son the jai-alai player is the hottest betting commodity in town. Not only is he the first American to equal the Basque masters of the sport, he is, at 22, a reigning champion. Since around $350,000 is wagered each performance in the fronton where Joey holds sway, Mrs. Cornblit, a metalworker's wife, has been besieged by telephone calls: "Did Joey eat his breakfast?" "Did he sleep well...
...film tells the story of a year in the lives of three Vaganova students-an 11-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a young woman about to graduate. This is done in a straightforward, quite artless manner. There is a little spurious drama about the graduate's nervousness over her final recital, but the audience learns quickly that she really had nothing to worry about, as the Kirov had decided to accept her some time before. The picture is at its best when it shows youngsters trying out for admission to the school and when...
...Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws. But after he was birched three strokes in 1972 for beating up a school prefect who had snitched on him, a 15-year-old Manx boy named Anthony Tyrer made an international case...