Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Rudd provided no explanation for his surrender, it clearly was time for him to come in from the cold. The war that he had opposed ended two years ago without setting off the revolution he had expected. His father, Jacob Rudd, a former Army officer who sells real estate in suburban Maplewood, N.J., and had not seen his son for seven years, speculated about Mark's motives: "He's 30 years old. You get too old to be a revolutionary...
Minister of Justice James Kruger issued a lengthy explanation along with his announcement that Biko had died of the effects of his hunger strike. "I'm not pleased, nor am I sorry; Biko's death leaves me cold," Kruger told delegates to the Transvaal Congress of the ruling National Party in Pretoria (later he softened this statement, expressing "human sympathy" to journalists). Kruger said that Biko was given intravenous nutrients just before he died, but Kruger noted, "If a man goes on a hunger strike, you cannot force him to eat." One delegate caustically congratulated Kruger on "being...
...article than its length (12,000 words) would lead one to expect. Though Bernstein is the first CIA watcher to number the agency's journalist-helpers as high as 400, most of his article summarizes charges already made by other investigators. Moreover, his disclosures deal primarily with the cold war days of the '50s and early '60s. "All these issues looked very different when there was a broad consensus in American society about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys," says Robert Kaiser, a veteran foreign correspondent for the Washington Post...
...thing, Kinget says, the idealization of lovers has given way to "reality testing"-young people are casting a cold eye on prospective mates to check for flaws. Social assumptions that promote romantic love-e.g., women are weak and need protection-are rapidly breaking down and "extended longing" crucial to romantic love has been dealt a death blow by casual sex and the easy availability of birth control. Says Kinget: "The notions of agony and ecstasy traditionally associated with this kind of love have become meaningless-in fact, quaint...
Brooks is a tough, bony man of 65, with a tough, bony reputation. He is an old baseball player, newspaper reporter, rider of freights. He played chess with Bogart. He directed and wrote the screenplays for Key Largo, Blackboard Jungle and In Cold Blood. His regular practice is to give actors segments of the script just before scenes are to be shot, then collect them afterward and destroy them in a paper shredder. "I don't trust anybody," he yells. "I've seen it happen too many times. The best goddamned thing in your movie shows up in a goddamned...