Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious attempt to impose aural purity on his people, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini earlier in the week had proposed that music be banned from national broadcasting. "Worse than opium," he said, "music is among the elements that stultify the mind of our youth." Television and radio officials said they would go along with the ban for the holy month but would decide later whether or not to resume normal musical programs...
...financial and commercial exchanges; the movement of persons [into the U.S.]; drugs, which are being controlled increasingly on this side of the border; and contraband from the U.S. into Mexico. Taken together with the problem of the capital market, all these questions must be looked into carefully, because a curious thing is happening: at times of crisis, Mexicans take their money out of Mexico and put it into the U.S.; the U.S. accepts this Mexican capital but does not accept the Mexican worker. This is a problem that we have to bring up and examine...
Despite his Credentials as an opponent of the Shah, Khomeini's curious blend of mysticism and activism still made him slightly suspect in the eyes of the Islamic Establishment- as a holy man who tried to run around with the Mob, one might say -but his following was growing steadily. In the late 1950s he became an Ayatullah, a title that is earned, more or less, by developing a following and gradually gaining the recognition of one's superiors. Khomeini's first significant political victory came in November 1962, after the Shah's government decided that...
...according to a 1974 law that gave the Government possession of the secret recordings, as well as those that were made public during the Watergate investigations and trials. Eventually the Government intends to set up as many as eleven centers around the country to give historians, and just plain curious citizens, easy access to the recordings...
...curious way, this is a daring movie. It is a "prequel," as the neologism has it. The Early Days tells the story of how the title characters met and formed the partnership celebrated in that mighty hit of (can it be?) a decade ago, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In the circumstances it would have been sufficient merely to evoke the antic cheerfulness of the old movie and then coast home on its reputation. Instead, Director Richard Lester, a master of off-the-wall historical japery (The Three Musketeers), has chosen to make Butch and Sundance an exercise...