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...especially when they are projecting the future, offer cautionary instruction to the audience. How effortlessly this sequence does both. For Thunderdome is both hall of justice and cultural center for Bartertown, presided over by Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), purring like a tiger and claiming she has created civilization's highest flowering since nuclear devastation. Indeed she has, if an imitation of late 20th century city life--all junk, improvisations and random brutality--is your idea of civilization. Thunderdome brilliantly clarifies that irony. Its high-bounding excesses of action simultaneously satisfy and satirize the passion for heedless viciousness that so profoundly...
...world and has distorted human culture for more than 5,000 years with its obsession with power. Male self-identity depends on the ability to control women and nature. No dominance, no manhood. Parodying Vince Lombardi on football, French writes: "In a patriarchal world, power is not just the highest but the only value." Elsewhere she seems to say that slaughter is required for male identity: "Killing became the mark of the truest man, of manhood itself...
Underlying the celebratory tone was the fact that women's gains over the Decade, while uneven, have been encouraging. Women's literacy, life expectancy and level of schooling are up worldwide. In Africa, which has the globe's highest illiteracy rate, the percentage of women who can read and write grew from 18% to 27% between 1970 and 1980, and is expected to jump to 40% by 1990. "Education was only a word 15 or 20 years ago," said Barbadian Dame Nita Barrow, who organized the NGO forum. "Now you see women holding positions in banking, in their communities, women...
...basic freedom to be the right to choose when and whether to have children, but that goal is still unrealized in large parts of the globe. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Kenya, where men's resistance to contraception has contributed to a stratospheric birthrate of 4%, the highest in the world. Birth control was a running controversy at the Nairobi meetings, where antiabortion groups and organizations opposed to artificial contraception clashed sharply with pro-choice and family-planning advocates. "Women must control their own fertility, which forms the basis for enjoying all other rights," insisted Sally Mugabe, head...
...most estimates, 80% of all oil produced today sells for as much as $2 per bbl. below OPEC's prices, the highest of which is $28 per bbl. for top-quality light crude. Moreover, the cartel now produces only 43% of the West's oil, vs. 63% in 1979. The rest is pumped by such countries as Mexico, the U.S. and Britain, none of which belongs to OPEC. Three weeks ago Mexico dropped its price to $3 per bbl. below OPEC levels...