Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRANCISCO DA COSTA GOMES, President, is known in Lisbon political circles as "the cork"; that is because he always manages to bob to the surface after every storm. Conciliatory and pragmatic, always searching for ways to avoid conflict, Costa Gomes, 61, is the kind of avuncular friend that others turn to in moments of crisis. Thus, although he did not take an active role in the April 1974 revolution, he was the first choice of the captains and majors who led the armed forces to head the Junta of National Salvation. After the coup succeeded, he was appointed chief...
...thinking she was "temperamentally suited" to be an objective reporter, a witness to events. But "now things have changed. I would still hate to be described as a participatory journalist; but I am a writer and I am a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict." Perhaps the problem is that the women's movement, by its very nature so bound up with emotions and subjective reactions, is an impossible subject to report on objectively--and that goes for mate reporters as well as female ones. In any case. Ephron's journalistic method of casting herself prominently...
Here, however, Doyle's crudeness is transported to Marseilles and an alliance with the French gendarmerie, where it gets a chance to show what good old American vulgarity can really do. And the film is surprisingly serious about the usually cliched conflict between European urbanity and Doyle's simple "I'm an American and we're the best so fuck you" attitude. He proves his courage, yes, but he also makes a complete fool of himself--and, wonder of wonders in a picture like this--he shows monstrous inefficiency. Very un-American and very unpoheevian-like. He's much more...
...then the Secretary declared, "If I understand the message of Solzhenitsyn, it is that the U.S. should pursue an aggressive policy to overthrow the Soviet system. But I believe that if his views became the national policy of the U.S., we would be confronted with considerable threat of military conflict . . . I believe that the consequences of his views would not be acceptable to the American people or to the world...
...especially concerned with redefining blackness and with confronting the stereotyped notion that blackness in America is "poverty, broken homes, troubled communities; ability in athletics; singing, dancing, pimping and mugging; hating whites and not being too smart." This definition of blackness, say the authors, can lead to "absolute terror" and conflict in those black teens "who would like to have friendships with blacks or whites, who enjoy Beethoven as much as Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul, who prefer algebra to basketball...