Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from office, either would probably be replaced by yet another one of the generals from whose ranks both leaders came. The Philippines, however, has no credible mechanism to assure an orderly succession. Marcos' one-man rule recalls Louis XIV's declaration, "L 'état c 'est moi," and the warning sometimes attributed to Louis XV, "Après moi le déluge...
...Great Wall of China attracted record crowds during a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. On a "mission of mercy" to Chad, est Founder Werner Erhard urged natives to "take responsibility for your own starvation" and was promptly eaten. Alarmed at declining election turnouts, the Administration offered free toasters to anyone who voted. Congress made 1984 the Year of the Total Recall when it ordered the return of everything manufactured...
...introduced his then modern-language prayer book in 1549. All the reasons given against the 1979 book-"it's poor English, it's not traditional, it's poor theology"-were first used in opposition to Cranmer's book. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme chose...
Whose Life Is It Anyway? The strang est objects in New York theaters this sea son are plays that might be labeled terminal comedy cases. They highlight people who defend with their wit and ironic quips the right to die. This is the best of those plays, and Tom Conti, paralyzed from the neck down, is the most at tractive antihero in that we root for his decision to die and mourn the imminent loss of a vitally amusing friend at the same time...
...wonder, then, that the Cannes Festival is a perfect subject for Director Michael Ritchie, a satirist who has previously assaulted such institutions as competitive sports (Downhill Racer), beauty pageants (Smile), political campaigns (The Candidate) and est (Semi-Tough). For his new film, An Almost Perfect Affair, Ritchie went to the 1978 festival to record the goings-on in all their vulgar glory. He eavesdrops on the manic deal making that transpires daily on the Carlton Hotel terrace, the pretentious black-tie screenings, the endless parade of female pulchritude for commercial purposes. Such real-life luminaries as Rona Barrett, Edy Williams...