Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elio Petri's A Quiet Place in the Country is a fine, unsettling ghost movie. But the spooks in this story are made of neuroses, not ectoplasm, and they haunt the mind, not the attic. Petri is crafty enough not to explain his spirits away, but clever enough at the same time to provide a rational explanation of all the freaky goings...
...arrived in Moscow three weeks ago wearing a rumpled sports coat, striped shirt and red tie. He puffed on his Montecristo No. 1 cigars steadily throughout the twelve days of negotiations. One night he went on a tour of Moscow nightspots, ending up at the Slavyansky Bazar, a haunt of young Russians, where he danced exuberantly with bemused Russian girls. Certainly he represents a new school of diplomacy, whose members believe in direct and candid contact. To traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless. By classic standards, Scheel would certainly seem too imprecise and incautious to negotiate treaties...
WAITING FOR GODOT is about immobility. Vladimir and Estragon sit in a place which is essentally nowhere; they entertain or bore one another; they sit. Like the street people who haunt the Square because there's no place for them to go, Vladimir and Estragon have internalized inevitability of inactivity. "Nothing to be done," when incanted as often as a mantra, can be cerily comforting. The dilemma of two tramps, waiting for a man who will not come, is our dilemma, too. And we remain waiting because the possibility of meaning, or of reason, or of order, is so seductive...
What on earth had happened? For one thing, the mood of the country proved to be markedly different from the findings of most analysts. The Tory cause was aided by two fears that haunt Britain's lower and middle classes: the rising cost of living and the specter of racial tension, a theme vehemently exploited by Tory Rightist Enoch Powell (see box, page 21). But the most important factor was the drop in the electoral turnout, which was the lowest in postwar history; small turnouts almost invariably hurt Labor and favor the better-organized and more strongly motivated Tories...
...Moslems are prosperous." Nobody was more bitter, however, than Home Minister Y.B. Chavan, a native of Maharashtra, who after a visit to Bhiwandi told of how small children had been burned alive in front of their mothers. "I have met such a mother," said Chavan, "and her face will haunt me throughout my life...