Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vance, Warnke, Ball−and Carter−are members of the Trilateral Commission, organized in 1973 by David Rockefeller. It was in this group of about 200 Western European. North American and Japanese private citizens that Jimmy Carter first met many of the U.S. foreign policy community...
...have fresh produce for sale. Merchants who had lost their shops in downtown fighting transformed the once flashy Corniche into an open-air souk, closed only on days when the artillery thumped dangerously close. With no censor about, a few movie theaters even were daring enough to show European soft porn−afternoon diversion for weary militiamen back from the front line downtown...
...splashy sidelight of the industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals with the discrimination suffered by the bastard offspring of black American GIs stationed in Thailand...
American attitudes toward the participation of Communist parties in Western European governments have been among the most conspicuous and counterproductive examples of the ideological rigidity of American policy. Kissinger's intense opposition to governmental participation by Italy's Communist party--based on the increasingly anachronistic assumption that European communist parties are part of a monolithic bloc under Soviet domination--is both shortsighted in terms of American interests and insensitive to the needs of the Italian people. The PCI's rise is the product of long-term changes in Italian society, economy and politics--changes which are unlikely to be reversed...
Boggs, a specialist on 19th and 20th century European and American art, will join the Faculty as professor of Fine Arts this summer. She will be the department's only modernist and its second tenured woman...