Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About six or seven. We decided that people could help make decisions only if they did something...
...decided to move out of the city into the suburbs to help serve the needs of the community...
...Tusenbach, the lieutenant who wins Irina's hand only to be shot in a duel, Brain Bedford performs with great skill--to the extent to actually playing on the piano the middle section of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu. His glasses, moustache, and long hair parted squarely in the center help make him properly homely. There is an extraordinary amount of traffic in this play--entrances and exists, greeting and farewells. One of the most moving farewells in all drama is the parting of Irina and Tusenbach in Act IV--a fine example of Chekhov's oblique method, for the poignance...
...rest of the footage comes on as a Coca-Cola travelogue, complete with the familiar dialectic of Old and New: large cathedrals, ornate Spanish architecture, monuments and statuary versus shots of the people gaily swinging through the busy streets of Brazil's modern cities, qua qua. And there to help them is American business, working and playing to build a strong, free Western Hemisphere. The whole gang's on hand: Coke, Ford, General Motors, Shell, Texaco, Esso, Frank Sinatra, even Helena Rubinstein with American beauty standards. But the spoken narration puts this post-card Brazil into perspective, reciting figures...
...acting as "a creation of the community it serves, WIN represents the most basic form of community self-help, that of improving employment opportunities", and thereby hopes to overcome the standardization and impersonality of other welfare programs...