Word: debts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's cumulative deficit grew to $555 million. Tax dodging by the privileged was flagrant, but Belaúnde's programs were in any case beyond Peru's fiscal capacity. So he went abroad to borrow money to keep his plans afloat, until the foreign debt mounted to $900 million...
...bone-clean "white soul" anywhere. Along with their musicianship, a lack of self-indulgence plays a large part in the beauty of their sound. The singing is as loose as a hired field hand's and is exactly right on each cut. With The Weight, they pay their debt to country gospel music and then some. The bring-it-on-home chorus, "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free,/Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me," begs for a singalong. This album is an event, and will be regarded...
...prove as much of a surprise to Shostakovich's fans as to his critics. Gone are the characteristic hard-edged rhythms, brittle orchestral sounds and prankish grotesqueries. Instead, the bad boy of Russian music seems to have found a new mood of lyrical quiet and contentment. His artistic debt to Sergei Prokofiev is as clear as ever-embarrassingly so at times-and some of his melodic writing in the first movement is downright dull. But the elegiac sweep of the middle adagio movement and the jauntiness of the finale compensate admirably for these shortcomings. The concerto is not quite...
...Europe and the U.S., Latin America and the Middle East, dirt-poor farmers and peasants whose forebears never dreamed of leaving the land are trekking to cities by the millions. Instead of finding the promised good life and good pay, most of them end up in a demoralized, debt-ridden limbo of menial jobs and ghetto housing. This contemporary demographic disaster is the subject of Voyage of Silence, a somber documentation of a Portuguese peasant's emigration to France. Produced by Philippe de Broca-a new wave filmmaker best known for frothy fantasy (That Man from Rio, The Five...
When Charles Dickens was twelve, his debt-hounded family yanked him from school and sent him to work in a ratty London warehouse where blacking paste was made. His ordeal lasted only a few months, then he returned to school. But, as Wilfrid Sheed notes in a preface to this brace of new fiction pieces, a sense of shock and abandonment stayed with Dickens the rest of his life. He could not even bring himself to mention the episode until 25 years later, when he wrote bitterly of "the sense I had of being utterly neglected and hopeless...