Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director photographer Jan Troell has not only dramatized what the idea of American meant for those who dared test their limits a against it but the social and economic processes by which an ethnic group of disparate individuals slowly became a community. And with his camera alone, Troell can express usually well the joy his characters found in nature and the hardships they suffered when their native land wouldn't work for them: the deprivations of the emigrants' ship, and the bounty of their new country. Of course, Troell placed two fine actors in his lead roles--May son Sydow...
...become as familiar to millions of TV viewers as Brezhnev, Gierek and Honecker. Local papers dutifully carrying the party line are losing a newsstand sales race to Stern, Paris Match and other Western periodicals laden with enticing advertisements. East-bloc vacationers swinging through London, Rome and Paris on American Express tours are surprised to find that the greatest evils in the treacherous West are city traffic and the new platform shoes. Why, they demand, can't the Warsaw Pact disband its 94 divisions and beat its 21,000 tanks into new Volkswagens and Citro...
...Queen's Dragoon Guards. Declared the League Against Cruel Sports: "Animal lovers are appalled that the princess appears to be able to do no better with her leisure time than to help beat the daylights out of foxes." From the RSPCA, one militant group demanded that the Queen "express regret" or resign from the organization. A palace spokesman was modestly regretful: "Most of the royal family do not go fox hunting. But this was bound to happen to Princess Anne as she has so many friends who ride and are in that circle. It seems that the temptation...
...have the rent control administrator grant no increases above the March 1970 rent level "except in exact amounts to meet increased costs." And in the final effort to thwart Corcoran's activities on rent control, she sought in June 1971 to deny a salary increase to Corcoran, to express the Council's discontent with the manager's handling of rent control, which the termed "irresponsible...
...interview given to England's New Musical Express stresses Alice's offstage normaley. Nick Kent, the interviewer, remarks on the apparent paradox between the Alice Cooper image and the man. He refers to "the charm and good manners of the All-American college boy he appears when not giving vent to his transvestite juvenile delinquent alter-ago." Kent also notes his own surprise at "how overtly masculine they (the band) look," and Alice's cross-country career at his Phoenix high school. In line with all this one of rock's current rumors is that Alice Cooper is really...