Word: coms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businesses with the spending and taxation policies of federal, state and local governments. The capitalist economy may thus eventually take on some features of socialism, just as socialism over the years has adopted some practices of capitalism. Yet a nation that accounts annually for nearly half of the non-Com munist world's gross national product, and has more individual business enterprises than many countries have people, is surely strong and diverse enough to accommodate the best features of both systems. ∙ Donald M. Morrison
...sound track, one may be fairly sure that something atrocious will appear on the screen-and be distanced by the irony of juxtaposition. Thus to the strains of Rossini's Thieving Magpie, a girl is gang-raped in a deserted casino. In a sequence of exquisite comédie noire, Alex cripples a writer and rapes his wife while tripping through a Gene Kelly number: "Singin' in the rain" (bash), "Just singin' in the rain" (kick...
...Pakistanis have taken to caking mud all over their autos in the belief that it camouflages them from Indian planes. In nightly blackouts, the road traffic moves along with absolutely no lights, and fear has prevailed so com pletely over common sense that there has probably been more bloodshed in traffic accidents than in the air raids. The government has begun urging motorists only to shield their lights, but peasants throw stones at any car that keeps them on. In this uneasy atmosphere, Pakistani antiaircraft gunners opened up on their own high-flying Sabre jets one evening last week...
...magic brass bed that flies them away from their little cottage by the white cliffs of Dover for a trip to London. The "headmaster" of the correspondence school, a sidewalk sorcerer named Professor Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), joins the group in a search for a magic amulet that will com plete the correspondence course and secure Miss Price's powers...
Here again the women proved themselves the more dissatisfied as 81 per cent criticized the UHS for inadequate information in com- parison with 65 percent of the male respondents...