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Stoned to Death. The government's reticence in dealing with Toro's brazen band of revolutionaries may be related to the approach of national elections in September. Toro and his followers belong to the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario, a radical organization that enjoys the support of no more than 3% of Chile's electorate. But the radicals are symptomatic of a mood of unease that could turn Chile into the hemisphere's first country with a freely elected Communist government...
...visitor was not impressed by America: "The desperate contests between the North and the South; the iron curb and brazen muzzle fastened upon every man who speaks his mind . . . The stabbings and shootings, the coarse and brutal threatenings exchanged between Senators under the very Senate's roof, the intrusion of the most pitiful, mean, malicious, creeping, crawling, sneaking party spirit intc all transactions of life ... I believe the heaviest blow ever dealt at Liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth." The date: 1842. The commentator: Novelist...
...show might have built more impact from a brazen dynamo in the role of Mama Minnie Marx, àla Ethel Merman in Gypsy. As it is, Shelley Winters ambles through the part rather than animating it. She seems preoccupied, as if she smelled something burning in the oven rather than...
Poules de Luxe. Temporary alliances can be formed even on the airport grounds. When Orly first opened for business nine years ago, the filles meeting early morning flights became so brazen in their pursuit of business that airport authorities chased them away. Today the Orly birds are gone and a more discreet corps of poules de luxe (literally, high-price chicks) ply the airport bars on weekends...
...manifesto for a national urban policy is articulate, well documented, but ultimately divisive. It will not rouse the Administration to action: it will not rouse Congress to action; at most it will rouse a few social scientists to speculation. But it deserves a measure of appreciation. It takes a brazen man to outline policy- and national policy, at that- on problems of such complexity that their prolonged study can induce paralysis...