Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland. Publicly, Kissinger was anxious to give the British full credit for the present Rhodesian proposal; privately, he was aware that the British, having got burned over Rhodesia before, would be content to let the U.S. take the responsibility if a last-minute hitch should develop. At a press conference, Kissinger was asked what would happen if the Rhodesian problem should be turned over to Britain, as the de jure colonial power, and then fell apart. "We'll get the blame," Kissinger grinned...
...final portion of the exhibit was "Socialist New Tibet," where "the emancipated serfs have organized to develop production." It is a hall filled with all kinds of grains, fruits and vegetables, furs and agricultural machinery, along with various exhortations for communal economic development. In a filled-in swamp below the Potala, the Chinese have built an administrative complex and guesthouse...
...urged students to develop the "basic qualities of the mind" including the ability to be sensitive to inequalities and injustices in the world...
...temporary lull on spiritual exhortation. But even in the later ranges of history he says, "swings will probably not be so violent as they were when Mao was at the helm. We're going to have many hands at the tiller now; so turns will take longer to develop, will be more obviously done, and they will be telegraphed in advance...
...Passenger is Antonioni at his most pretentious. Jack Nicholson assumes the identity of an international gunrunner who dies in his hotel in the African bush and for a few scenes it appears that the film may develop into a compelling spy thriller. But no such luck--Antonioni isn't really interested in guns--or anything else for that matter--so Nicholson simply wanders through Europe in an existential search for self-identity and the Meaning of Life, picking up a languid Maria Schneider en route. Only the film's visual beauty--Spanish landscape and Gaudi architecture shot in lush Italian...