Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...migrant labor system, and the color bar. The government declares that only 13 per cent of the land (the "Bantustans" or "homelands") is African, though three-quarters of the 24 million population is black. Africans may be citizens only of these areas, which are poor and eroded and contain neither towns nor mineral resources. This poverty forces them to find work in the "white areas." But as non-citizens in these areas they have no rights. They may not, in most cases, bring their families; they must stay in segregated "townships" and may be deported at any time...
...Puritani contains scarcely any drama at all. What plot it has concerns two noble lovers who are temporarily made unhappy by conflicting allegiances to Cavaliers and Roundheads in 17th century England. The opera unfolds like a torpid, benign Lucia di Lammermoor: it has a hero who prefers politics to love, a heroine who goes mad. By the time all turns out for the best, it is hard to remember what went wrong: three scenes contain no action of any kind...
...recent films except All Screwed Up have been made with Giancarlo Giannini. His presence galvanizes her movies. His racked, searching eyes haunt them. "Those eyes are extraordinary," Wertmuller told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They seem to contain an independent life force-as if they could scream, curse, plead, argue and make love." Giannini, like Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni before him, fulfills the perennial audience yearning for a romantic image and the abiding need for an adroit actor of humor and mercurial sensibility...
This is the first installment of the political page, a new feature of the Crimson. The political page will contain long, analytical pieces on national, international and Harvard affairs and will appear as a second editorial page on occasional Thursday...
...what it was-a marketing tool to boost sales of SX-70 film and help Polaroid recoup the $350 million that it spent developing the SX-70 system. They predicted sales of 2 to 3 million Prontos annually, providing a hungry market for SX-70 film packs, which contain batteries to power the camera and sell at discount for about $5 each. Some analysts chided Polaroid for wasting time in descending from the unnecessarily complex SX-70 original to the simpler Pronto. Said E.F. Hutton Vice President Marvin Saffian: "If the Pronto had been introduced in 1972, it would have...