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Unfortunately, the debates often concerned little more than narrow ethnic prejudices. According to anti-Marketers, EEC membership would allow "dirty Italians" to steal Norwegian jobs and "rich Germans" to grab Norwegian land. As the election approached, windows were smashed and radio aerials ripped from cars bearing Ja til EF-yes to EEC-bumper stickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: Norway Says Nei to Europe | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...make a montage ... means to write something cinegraphic with recorded shots."). Appearances serve as linguistic elements, his "writing" vocabulary, which means less concern with the purity of the images (i. e. dialectical compositions) than with their dialectical relation. Individual images of the bourgeoisie, for example, are never caricatured (ef. Eisenstein) in sequences of their normal activities that are perfectly harmless in hemelves: relaxing at the beach, golfing, socializing at a cattle auction. But Solanas makes these smiling (and sometimes even attractive) human beings hideous and hateful ("monstrosity masquerading as beauty") by placing them in the same construction with images...

Author: By Fernando Solanas, | Title: A Film Essay on Violence and Liberation La Hora de los Hornos | 4/16/1971 | See Source »

Fantastic Voyage involves a miniaturized medical team doing tricky brain surgery from inside the patient. The special ef fects are spectacular and won the 1966 Oscar. Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch play two of the tiny people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 10, 1969 | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...youth in Atlanta, Dickey's ef forts were mostly in outdoor sports and music. He still considers the north Georgia hills his "spiritual ground. My people are all hillbillies. I'm only second-generation city," he drawls. During World War II, he was a combat flier on some 100 missions in Black Widow night fighters over the Pacific. He later wrote about this experience in his poem, The Firebombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Poet as Journalist | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Predawn Assault. For the U.S., the chief immediate question was: Have the Russians renewed the cold war? A pri-ma-facie case can be made to the ef fect that they have; that Moscow has once again substituted force for reason, and that a seemingly businesslike regime is in fact dangerously unstable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A SAVAGE CHALLENGE TO DETENTE | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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