Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merchants, among them Hasidic Jews in black garb, pull around tens of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry in black suitcases on wheels. Discounts are large and bargaining is advisable. Down on the Lower East Side, on Orchard, Grand, Canal and nearby streets, stores offer first-quality, name-brand merchandise (shoes, linens, handbags, clothing, for the most part) at discounts that average from 20% to 25% and sometimes more...
Above all, perhaps, there is increasing concern that the samhället-the unique collective society created by Sweden's own brand of socialism-has fostered both a bureaucracy and a mentality that put security ahead of initiative, welfare ahead of opportunity and to envelop life in a cocoon of red tape. It was the labyrinth of tax regulations administered by a stern bureaucracy that prompted the self-exile of one of Sweden's most creative citizens: Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, 58, who settled in Hollywood in April after suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by his arrest...
...epic full of patriots and poltergeists called-what else?-The Spirits of 76. On July 1 a clever adman named Paul Foley will launch a confection entitled Fresh Views of the American Revolution. Foley's text is snappy but traditional. The fresh views turn out to be 19 brand-new, genuine, oldfashioned, neoprimitive paintings of great historic events lately limned by Artist Oscar de Mejo (the Declaration of Independence scene, for example, presents Jefferson, Franklin and three other delegates who worked on the document overlooked by a vast liberty belle (opposite page), who unfortunately somewhat resembles George Washington...
...leaders played a canny waiting game, delaying the call for outright independence until popular sentiment clearly swung away from King George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...
...this critics' golden age, Pauline Kael has unmistakably earned her pedestal. With a gritty, grappling brand of opinionation (and largely because of it), her review slot at the New Yorker has often produced sparkling minor masterpieces. She's become the Chopin of the pan. When she lights into "Lost Horizon," the multi-million dollar clunker in Reeling, it's a virtuoso performance. "To lambast a Ross Hunter production is like flogging a sponge," she writes. "He is to movies what Liberace is to music, and once, on a television talk show, I saw them both. . .and the two unctuous smiles...