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...encircled by British rule," said Palar. "People abroad think that Indonesia is trying to grab North Borneo. But we are supporting freedom movements all over the world. That is why we are supporting guerrillas in North Borneo. That is why we are sending volunteers...
...turn down - including one offer of $75,000. But eight performances a week of Funny Girl have been taxing enough. "It's painful, not boring, painful! It's everything I hated about school. It's become nine-to-five." And sobering. She used to grab last-minute cabs to the theater. "It made for its own excitement," recalls Barbra, especially when she couldn't find a taxi. Once she arrived in a police car; another time she commandeered a truck. "Then I thought, 'What am I going through all this agony...
Fanon is able to criticize his own side, particularly the one-party regimes, chauvinism, and native elites who grab all the cushy jobs and Cadillacs. But, in general, the anger is directed the other way, including the ritual indictments that native peoples were deprived of all benefits of colonialism and that Europe's wealth was "stolen" from the undeveloped countries. Fanon insists that colonial rule was as bad as Nazi rule in Europe. Above all, though colonialism was rapidly fading as he wrote this book in the late 1950s, he denounces neocolonialism as the same old evil and defines...
...whole program can become totally discredited, If too many politicians grab hold of it, it becomes nothing more than a big pork-barrel." The possibility of failure also Moot: "There is an immediate danger of 'Overpromise.'" It would be more than demoralizing, he says, "to work in employment programs with 100 kids and then be able to place only 10 per cent of them jobs...
...Love Goddesses, put forth as a history of sex in the movies, is a grab bag of old film clips that suggests that the sundry excesses of Sweet Charlotte stem from time-honored Hollywood tradition. In The Cheat (1915), villainous Sessue Hayakawa leaves the mark of his desire on Fannie Ward's neck with a hot branding iron. In one of her early forays, Vamp Theda Bara anticipates the living bra by wearing what appears to be a giant tarantula. In Blonde Venus (1932), a gorilla lumbers through a chorus line, yanks off hirsute head and paws and clears...