Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women in their dependence have always exacted a price in the guerrilla war of the sexes. Philip Wylie's devouring Mom of 30 years ago or Alexander Portnoy's horrific mother or countless wives and mistresses of fancy and fact were really figures of thwarted womanhood, exacting an understandably neurotic revenge. Women's liberation, while it thrusts women into a new world of difficult choices and questions of identity, should ultimately accomplish much for the sheer sanity of both men and women. In any case, as Addie Wyatt says, "All we're asking is that we be recognized as full...
...from near disaster. In the first address, she claimed to have ended, without a single casualty, an abortive four-day coup by a faction of air force officers. Then on Christmas Eve she was on the TV screen again, praising the valor of troops who had crushed a massive guerrilla attack on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and giving the impression that she had the country well in hand...
...faced with one of three political fates: continued association with Portugal leading to gradual independence, immediate independence or integration with Indonesia. The generals in Jakarta decided on integration, evidently because they feared that if independence were chosen, East Timor might some day be used as a staging ground for guerrilla operations mounted by Indonesian dissidents or Communist-backed rebels...
Murmur of the Heart. This week I run the risk of discrediting myself with superlatives. Louis Malle's Souffle de Coeur is one of the funniest films ever made, and certainly the Funniest Film About Incest ever made. It captures French bourgeois life with the accuracy of a Palestinian guerrilla looking for hostages. The spinach throwing scene is the best piece of cinematic slapstick since Chaplin. The subtler pieces are all there too: the way the mother, for example, sits down on the bed in the hotel room before agreeing to take the room is a gesture peculiar...
...same time, there are fears in India that China, which has given arms and guerrilla training to rebellious Naga and Mizo tribesmen in eastern India, may be tempted to do the same for Bengali Maoists, thus creating tension along India's long eastern border...