Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public Embrace. After De Martino announced that his party could no longer support Moro's coalition, the Socialists formally demanded the creation of a "government of national emergency" with powers to change economic policy and solve Italy's urgent problems. More significantly, the Socialists asked that the Communists openly support any new government "in the light...
...though, it is similar--like every Kubrick film since Lolita, Barry Lyndon is adapted from a book. Thackeray's Barry Lyndon, like his far greater creation, Becky Sharp, is a social climber at heart. Thackeray's attitude to figures of this kind is a mixture of sympathy and a consciousness that they must not be allowed to succeed. Thus Barry ends his life as a poor invalid in Ireland and Becky as a tattered card sharp making the rounds of tawdry German courts. Yet some sympathy always remains for these characters, either because--like Becky--they are so much brighter...
Evil Eye Fleegle, a creation of Cartoonist Al Capp, can deliver a "whammy," or dirty look, so powerful that it can melt steel and shrivel flesh. Neither U.S. nor Soviet researchers can duplicate Fleegle's feat. But both sides have long been working on weapons that may do the same thing. Jane's Yearbooks, London publisher of the authoritative guides to weapons systems, and the influential U.S. publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend...
...Children went to Viet Nam and is now into women's liberation. After considerable tension, a young black couple have agreed to live in different cities for five days a week so they can pursue their different careers as doctor and social worker. Nixon's most memorable creation, however, was a traditional type, Rachel, the Circe of Another World. In 1966, when Nixon arrived at World, the show was in trouble. Within a year she had introduced Rachel as a bewitching homewrecker and one of the soaps' durably popular villainesses...
...corporations, corporate lawyers, politicians and academics, and is quite concerned with threats to the continued stability of the international economic system. In fact, commission co-founder and director Brezinski sees this as the major problem facing contemporary American foreign policy. In an article in Foreign Affairs coincident with the creation of the commission, he explains the foundations of his analysis...