Word: forward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the beginning the plot and the Revolution are advanced by the actions of specific characters. Not only on a script level, but more vitally in Renoir's formal style, so the actions of each man make the Revolution: breathtaking camera tracks sum up their actions into a single forward motion, and the characters are thereby swept into the world of the film, the historical movement that was the French Revolution...
...corruption in the city government, but he says he will probably run again. If he does, the mayor is favored to win, since he has a liberal record and has in the past drawn large numbers of Negro votes. If Addonizio decides to quit, though, Newark can look forward to a wrenching election that is bound to polarize the community. Councilman-at-large Anthony Imperiale, the outspoken organizer of a white vigilante squad and a supporter of George Wallace in the last election, would probably emerge as the leading candidate...
Peking's exhortations were designed to rally fervor for China's latest economic venture. The project bears a striking resemblance to the Great Leap Forward of a decade ago, probably Mao Tse-tung's most ambitious scheme for China, and his most disastrous failure...
Although China has scarcely recovered from the Great Leap Forward and the more recent ravages of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the rhetoric today-"walking on two legs," "flying leap," "new leap"-is virtually identical with the admonitions of the earlier fiasco. As was the case then, agriculture will have to bear the main burden...
...bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping audience. "The Communists are coming-Help! Help!" shriek the onstage characters as they watch the approaching dragon. A puppet king, Vittorio Emanuele, pushes forward the shapely brunette in the bathing costume. "Only you, sweet Capitalism, can save us," he says. The dragon growls ferociously at the brunette and starts to wind itself around her body. She moves seductively within its coils, rubbing her breasts against its body. Instead of crushing her, the dragon succumbs...