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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLASH with General Motors, Ralph Nader was only half jokingly dubbed "crusader." The automobile is not a commodity; it is the sacrament of a religion. It is in this context that groups such as the AAA argue against the Center for Auto Safety with what approaches religious fervor...
...days of talks at the World Food Conference in Rome, another 10,000 lives were lost to famine in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In the same period, another 1.4 million children were born into a world that already contains nearly half a billion starving people. In the sobering context of these statistics, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivered a keynote address that he considered one of the most important speeches of his career. History may herald the speech as signaling the start of a new era of international cooperation. But to many of the delegates in Rome last...
...stressed-concrete structures in the world, the Lavina-Tobel bridge in Switzerland (1966-67). In design, Bill has been an acknowledged rationalizing force. So has he been in art -but mainly in Europe because, as Wood suggests, "his conscious effort to undertake all his activities within a social context, while having deep roots in the history of 20th century European art, is fundamentally foreign to the individualistic tradition in the United States." No effort, no matter how brusque, could make a Yankee-myth existential art hero of this methodical sexagenarian, enacting his work ethic in a studio organized down...
Davis said the film has "educational value" when it is shown "in the right context...
...second set temporarily relieved me of my fears that Zappa would eventually sell out to commercialism. He played heavy metal, but only in the context of a parody ("Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "Watch carefully as we demonstrate our Blue Oyster Cult choreography...