Word: confrontation
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...funeral of Bogdan Wlosik, 20, a trainee electrician at the steel mill who had been shot in a scuffle with a plainclothesman. He was the 15th Pole known to have been killed since the imposition of martial law last December, and if Solidarity activists had no desire to confront the forces ranged against them in downtown Nowa Huta last week, they did use his burial rites to send a clear message to the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Referring to imprisoned Leader Lech Walesa's refusal to cooperate with the government, a crudely printed sign outside the steel...
Twenty-one years before I was born, an event took place at the home of then Secretary of State John Hay that was later to confront me with the most difficult political battle I had ever faced, including my long campaign for President. On the night of Nov. 18, 1903, a treaty was signed in Washington between the newly proclaimed Republic of Panama and the U.S. No Panamanian had ever seen the treaty, the terms of which were highly favorable to the U.S. Acting for Panama was a French businessman, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, whose authority was doubtful...
...only that, how can one not confront this modern-day question...
...Axinn rarely manages to find a theme springing directly from the images in his poetry. Rather than asking any questions that might interest the reader, or dealing other than superficially with the images of modern life that now confront all poets. Axinn tries to dodge them by watching birds. He creates a world of his own, fitting images awkwardly into his one-with-nature ideas...
BLANK, however, artfully presents much more in Burden of Dreams than merely Herzog's warped world. The movie contains beautifully photographed scenes of one of the most primitive sports on earth as well as glimpses of the culture of the local Indians and the problems they confront as the modern world encroaches on their territory. Herzog hired many natives as extras and laborers, and the practice created typically Western dilemmas over how to run the camp where both Indians and film crew lived. Should the rules of Western society or the laws of the jungle take precedence? Herzog's pursuit...