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...struggle. And this demystification must be achieved in praxis by creating forms that remain open, unfinished, and that include the people and their abilities to analyze, debate, and take action. It is one thing to speak of the people's power and quite another to urge them to exert it. A revolutionary film does not use its audience as means of instrumenting the revolution; instead it openly offers itself as means to be used by the oppressed in clarifying their struggle. A revolutionary film-as oposed to propaganda film-remains an object, something that can be perceived critically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Question | 4/16/1971 | See Source »

...Peronists could well win. Lanusse, who spent four years in prison in Patagonia for his role in an abortive coup against Peron in 1951, is not likely to welcome any return to the old Peronism. A more immediate concern for Argentina is whether the Pink House will once again exert its old magic and persuade Lanusse, as it did his predecessors, to forget about a restoration of civilian rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Magic in the Pink House | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Alangir called for international support for the new nation. "We want the great powers and the United Nations to exert their influence to prevent genocide in East Pakistan," he said Friday, "West Pakistani troops are using machine guns on unarmed civilians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil War Continues in East Pakistan | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Harvard looked better in the second period, capitalized once on a five-on-three situation to exert its only sustained pressure of the game. Denver successfully killed its numerous penalties, however, and finally beat Durno for the game's only goal...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Denver Nips Icemen, 1-0; Game Marred by Penalties | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...further his political education, sorting out the papers of Dr. Arthur Bauer, an aging leftist intellectual ("the reconstructing-a-life myth," i. e. Citizen Kane ), and he moves in at the Doctor's place where very strange things start to happen, strange powers begin to exert themselves (i. e. Dracula ). Bauer engages the unsuspecting youth in a lot of bizarre psychosexual games with his wife Francesca. (Adriana Asti), who is voluptuous and ostensibly psychotic. Sontag gives almost everything in clear, stagey medium shots (except for a few subjective long tracks and closeups to get us involved with the younger couple...

Author: By Jim Crawford, | Title: Radical Film Duet for Cannibals at the Central Square Theatre | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

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