Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Electrodes. "O.K., let's go," says Mrs. Shriver, 44. The first film of the day is a Japanese import, The Daydream, a collage of sensual sounds and sadomasochistic fury. On the screen, a man hangs a girl from the ceiling by ropes, then cuts off her clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks...
...cracks Mrs. Shriver. The film grinds to a finale in which the hero stabs the nude girl. "We're turning the whole picture down," says Mrs. Avara. "They insult us by submitting stuff like this." Among the films banned last year was I Am Curious (Yellow), the Swedish import found by federal district courts to possess sufficient "redeeming social value" to qualify for constitutional protection...
Both Northern Ireland and the Republic to the South have massiveunemployment. As long as the profits continue to leave the country and the English government maintains import quotas on Irish goods, the Irish economy cannot develop...
Ironically, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution best illustrates the kind of consultation envisioned by SR 85-here the President asked for and received "affirmative action." Overlooking this, many Senators have exaggerated the import of SR 85. Mr. Mansfield called the resolution "one of all-Senate concern which goes to the nature of the constitutional responsibilities of this body." intimating that only a breakdown in the Constitution could allow Vietnam to occur. In fact, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution fulfilled all the constitutional niceties. By expressing the sense of Congress, it eliminated the need for a declaration...
More than in most countries, urbanization has overwhelmed Japan. Only 20 years ago, 60% of the population was tied to the farm, and Japan still had to import rice; today, as a result of agricultural advances, only 18% of the Japanese people are needed to feed the country and produce a surplus. The dispossessed farmers cram the cities, and the cities have been woefully shortchanged. The "Tokaido Corridor," a slender, 366-mile coastal belt running along the Pacific from Tokyo to Kobe, was long celebrated for its beauty in misty wood-block prints and delicate, 17-syllable haiku. Today, with...