Word: conquer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thesis: since the government controls the cities, the population shift has made the countryside much less important politically. As a result the Communists are finding it far harder than before to apply Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of using the rural areas to choke off and finally conquer the isolated and outmanned cities...
...that other scenes do not. Landscapes are firm and familiar; still lifes intimate. Portraits, by their very nature, are personal. But the seascape must represent the aloof and detached ocean, and it is this defiant refusal to bend to man's control that has driven painters to conquer the sea on canvas. In a refreshing summertime exhibit, the Newark Museum has mounted two dozen marine paintings that show the various ways in which 19th century artists sensed the waters' many moods...
...probably everyone in the world but a few Tibetan monks knows by now, the story concerns a Myron who becomes a Myra after a transsexual operation. He-she determines to conquer Hollywood and devastate mankind. After Myron (Rex Reed) opens the proceedings by having himself castrated, Raquel Welch takes over as Myra. With Myron tagging along as her altered ego, she then lights out for Hollywood to claim half of an acting school owned by Myron's uncle, Buck Loner (John Huston). Once she implants herself as a teacher there, she decides to initiate her program of conquest...
...alliance created for defense find new life by seeking détente? That issue faced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as it met in Rome against a backdrop of leftist riots and rallies that proclaimed "Nixon, boia [Nixon, hangman]!" and "Al-Fatah vincerà [Al-Fatah will conquer]!" NATO was created in 1949 to defend Western Europe against Communist military aggression. But when the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO members met last week, they invited their Warsaw Pact opponents as well as nonaligned European countries to join with them in a search for ways to reduce tensions...
...furnishing Israel with Phantoms. When Sisco reaches Israel this week, the chief topic will be the increasing Russian presence in the Middle East, particularly Egypt. "The Soviet Union," Eban told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin last week, "has not had to use any armed force, has not had to conquer any territories, has not established a Communist regime, and yet has developed a deep penetration of the eastern Mediterranean." Plainly, Sisco is unlikely to hear any fresh thoughts about a peaceful settlement from either side...