Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers' profit margins on livestock were reduced to the point where incentive to raise animals was almost destroyed. In 1959's second quarter, meat consumption increased 14% while production slumped 6.3% below 1958. Hastily, Gomulka raised meat prices 25%, but it was too late. Long queues now form daily before near-empty butcher shops, and meatless Mondays have been decreed in Warsaw...
...year their President Urho Kekkonen shocked many Finns by letting the Russians veto the composition of a Finnish Cabinet. Following an election in which the Communists captured 50 of 200 parliamentary seats and emerged as the strongest single party, the republic's anti-Communist forces banded together to form a five-party coalition government. Flouting its postwar treaty pledge of "noninterference in other states' affairs," Moscow brought economic pressure to bear to destroy the coalition and succeeded in forcing the appointment of a new government from which the ministers Moscow disapproved were excluded. Hungary convinced many Finns that...
...chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal-American thus would give its 1,500 faithful employees of long service Christmas presents in the form of dismissal notices...
...Mouse gets out of this narrative trap, but in the process its tail end is somewhat mangled. Up to that point, though, the Roger MacDougall-Stanley Mann script is a fairly witty example of a rare film form: political burlesque. It keeps the show bouncing along despite a director (Jack Arnold) and a star (Peter Sellers, a sort of second-company Alec Guinness playing several roles) who have not mastered the light-fantastic style that suits and supports this sort of flimsy British whimsy...
Hulot's method of attack is a subtle one: he doesn't really pursue his prey; it pursues him. In Mon Oncle, Modern Times closes in on the good-natured Hulot (played by M. Tati, who also wrote and directed the film) in the form of a paunchy brother-in-law. Brother-in-law is an officer of an ultra-modern company which manufactures plastic hoses and similar useful items, and he has constructed for himself, wife and son a house with every conceivable inconvenience...