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...boarding a train at a way station; if he will mark our faces, stripped by anxiety of their self-possession; if he will appraise our luggage, our clothing, and look out of the window to see who has driven us to the station; if he will listen to the harsh or tender things we say if we are with our families, or notice the way we put our suitcase onto the rack, check the position of our wallet, our key ring, and wipe the sweat off the back of our necks; if he can judge sensibly the selfimportance, diffidence...
Furtivos. Another in the harsh, backcountry European genre of Padre Padrone, Jose Luis Borau's film manages to capture the hard beauty and violence of a remote area in Spain. Borau fought extensive censorship efforts to produce this strike at Franco's assertion that "Spain is a peaceful forest," and managed to come up with a boxoffice...
...powers, must act swiftly to adopt Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's proposal for U.N.-supervised elections and condemn South Africa's intransigence. If South Africa still refuses to back down and accept the U.N. plan, the U.N. must declare South Africa an immediate threat to international peace and enact harsh economic sanctions against the apartheid state, including a potentially devastating oil embargo...
...most of the speakers, echoing a public demand that has become politically irresistible and economically sensible. To a great degree, the new consensus for cutting is the result of inflation. Several years of rising prices have made a tax system that may have once seemed moderate and fair both harsh and inequitable, because it produces illusory gains in incomes, profits and home values that are taxed as heavily as if they were real. But there is wide disagreement on how taxes should be cut. How much can taxes be reduced without deepening the budget deficit and thus making inflation...
Wherever he wandered, Willie sang and played guitar in local honky-tonks, at times performing behind a chicken-wire screen set up to protect musicians from flying beer bottles. Out of this harsh apprenticeship came one of his earliest and best songs, a neon-lit lament called Night Life...