Word: british
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following is limited mainly to peasants in the East. But there are a formidable 30 million to 40 million country folk who revere him as a living saint. During the past 60 years, he has built up his following by siding with the impoverished peasants, first against the British raj and later against the rich absentee landlords. Living and dressing simply, he walks from village to village, dispensing a pastiche of religion and politics that he calls "Islamic socialism...
...painting. The artist himself and his svelte wife Stephanie can afford to divide their time between a farm in Vermont and Manhattan, where he recently bought and is renovating a flophouse on the Bowery. Noland's style has been studied and imitated by fellow artists from Rome to British Columbia. Advertisements are apt to blossom with his latest hues a season after he unveils them, because Madison Avenue's art directors haunt the 57th Street galleries for fresh ideas...
Bucharest these days is aswarm with West German, British, French and Jap anese visitors peddling such industrial tools as airplanes, chemical equipment and textile machinery. Already half of Rumania's trade is with non-Communist countries, compared with only 20% a decade ago. Rumania's industrial pro duction grew 12% in 1968, the great est increase of any country in the Eastern bloc. The expansion was more than twice as rapid as that of Czechoslovakia or Hungary, and it exceeded the U.S.S.R.'s growth rate by one third...
...find a decent table wine at a decent price:about $3.50 a bottle. Still, bargain hunt ers must beware. The increasing short age of good imported wine stocks in the U.S. has encouraged some promoters to foist off cheap and often undrinkable French wines on unsuspecting American customers. One British wine merchant is shipping to the U.S. a vinegary rose named Bourgogne-Chainette, which he touts as "light, dry,refreshing" and "a great rarity." Only the last phrase is accurate. With a magnifying glass and a knowledge of French, the customer will discover that Bourgogne-Chainette is a vineyard...
...Sallah, a minor movie produced and shot in his homeland. But this is his first leading role in an international big-budget project. It is difficult to see where the money went. Certainly little of it was spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with the drop of a decibel...