Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artistic shortcomings, Roots had a raw, visceral impact on many viewers. A handful of people, mostly teenagers, reacted violently. In Greenville, Miss., some white junior high school students taunted blacks: "You ol' slave, my granddaddy owned you once upon a time." Chanting "Roots, roots, roots," a gang of black toughs roughed up four white youths at Detroit's Ford High School. A well-to-do white woman in Atlanta voiced one fear: "I thought Roots was awful. The blacks were just getting settled down, and this will make them angry again." African History Professor John Henrik Clarke of New York...
...result of intense behind-the-scenes activity by Western European governments and the new Carter Administration. Noting that the meeting took place while Vice President Mondale was in Europe, one Western diplomat declared: "It is a big push by the Carter-Mondale-Vance team. They are coming on like gang-busters." At week's end the betting was that former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford would be named to follow up the historic Makarios-Denktas opening. It could not hurt that (like Walter Mondale) Clifford has 13 letters in his name...
...perhaps because of it-images of women being physically abused are becoming increasingly common. In record-album photos, fashion and men's magazine layouts, and even a few department-store windows and billboards, women are shown bound, gagged, beaten, whipped, chained or as victims of murder or gang rape. Says Zox, a Los Angeles photographer who has shot photos of women mutilating themselves: "S and M has been a trend in the arts for a while. It is just becoming a commercial trend...
...companies. But so far the tactic has had little impact. In fact, record shops may be on the way toward luring browsers away from dirty-book shops. Some current albums: Wild Angel by Nelson Slater (girl wearing a chain gag); Bloodstone's Do You Wanna Do a Thing? (gang-rape scene); Pure Food and Drug Act's Choice Cuts (woman's bare buttocks stamped with the album title). A group called the Ohio Players has illustrated a series of albums with sadistic photos. Among them: a woman chained, a woman being hanged, and a woman hugging...
...economics of terrorism tells more about its limited effectiveness than its causes. The bloody activities of the Irgun and the Stern Gang had much less to do with establishing Israel in 1948 than the financial support of American Jews and the backing of the U.S. Government. Likewise, if there ever is a Palestinian state in the Middle East, it will owe its existence to the fabulous wealth and political leverage of OPEC Arabs, not to the murderous acts of Al-Fatah. As Laqueur, Parry and Psychiatrist Frederick J. Hacker demonstrate in their books, guerrilla tactics (as differentiated from partisan action...