Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mondale flew on to Belgrade to pay a call on Yugoslav Communist Leader Josip Broz Tito, Washington's U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young was preparing to go from the Mozambican capital of Maputo to South Africa. In Mozambique, where he attended a 92-nation U.N. conference on Rhodesia and Namibia, Young had held private talks with Mozambican President Samora Machel and other African leaders. He irritated some delegates by comparing southern Africa to the American South and by advocating peaceful transition to African majority rule. Robert Mugabe, a leader of Rhodesia's militant Patriotic Front, found the speech "hollow...
...talking in 3-D, right into the room. Later, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, Artoo and the wookie play a variant of chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But even by that standard, Star Wars is tops...
...reminiscent of scenes written by Robert Heinlein and Samuel Delaney. But as Lucas and Producer Kurtz quickly point out, Star Wars is not science fiction but space fantasy. "Space fantasy allows you more rein to say what you want to say," explains Kurtz. "So that's what we call...
Film is their single frame of reference, the only thing they seem to think or dream about. For them history began about 1900, when the first murky images started flickering on whitewashed walls. Describing Lucas' happy marriage, Coppola can only call it "sort of romantic, like kids picking oranges in an old Jane Powell movie." There are notable similarities among the group. "They all seem to have repressed childhoods of one form or another," says a friend. "Marty Scorsese is asthmatic, Francis Coppola had polio when he was a child, and Steve Spielberg is slight of build, like George...
...continue the union's drive for a four-day work week. On another matter that once seemed equally important -reaffiliation with the AFL-CIO, from which Reuther defected in 1968-Fraser's mandate is less clear. The Los Angeles delegates voted to authorize union leaders to call a special convention within six months to consider the matter, but many members fear that reaffiliation would strip the U.A.W. of too much autonomy. Though contract bargaining time is two years off, Fraser has to start persuading white-collar workers that their needs will be well represented. Union organizing has been...