Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie, starring Brad Davis (Midnight Express), and directed by Rob Cohen (The Wiz), concerns life in the '60s. Shooting at Harvard will begin March 26, Alexandra said...
...Soviets became involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will not get involved in a conflict between Asian Communist states," Carter promised last week. But the only remedies he offered were those of the mediator-"to express our deep concern ... to encourage restraint...
Carter declared anew his thesis that the U.S. power to control geopolitical change is limited-and not necessarily useful. "We do not oppose change," he said. "Many of the political currents sweeping the world express a desire we share-the desire for a world in which the legitimate aspirations of nations and individuals have a greater chance of fulfillment." In such cases-and he included Iran-there was no cause for U.S. intervention. Said he: "Those who argue that the United States could or should intervene directly to thwart these events are wrong about the realities of Iran...
...Midnight Express, At Harvard Square. Monday at 12 noon, 3:55 and 7:55 p.m. With The Last Detail...
...Midnight Express. If you want to be blown away by emotional intensity, but don't want to pay five bucks and travel to Boston for The Deer Hunter, try Midnight Express, right here in Harvard Square. Another politically naive and outright xenophobic Hollywood product, Midnight Express still succeeds in conveying a very forceful statement of individual will. The story of an arrogant American college kid who gets caught (through his own stupidity) trying to smuggle hash home for his friends, the movie works because it is beautifully filmed and edited, because the violence, though abundant, is carefully placed, and because...