Word: ironization
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Wildrose is the story of a young woman's struggle to maintain her independence from society and men in a small mining town on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. The narrative conspicuously lacks pretension, prefering a plain-spoken unselfconscious style that cares little for cosmetic surfaces. Unlike last year's Country, Wildrose's authenticity relies less on cultural drama than on a coarse documentary-like artlessness that is assaulting at times with its "realistic" zeal. Instead of Jessica Lange courageously battling hurricanes and mortgage collectors in western-chic jeans, one has a homely June going off to the mines...
...film seems to work against its own supposed stand for women's rights. Walking past a row of leering truck-drivers, June's female companion offers in smiling, taunting contempt, "Hello, assholes," reducing her to their level. The issue of socio-economic progress degenerates into feminism at its iron-fisted worst: men are pitiful brutes...
...hand over the Canal Zone to Panama (an example to Third World nations that the U.S., not the Soviet Union, is the better friend). By advertising in local newspapers, ABC was able to find color footage of Churchill's 1946 visit to Fulton, Mo., where he delivered his famed Iron Curtain speech, and of General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo...
...from a prepared statement: "All accusations as to the alleged illegal activities of the Soviet representatives have nothing to do with reality," he said. "The Soviet embassy most strongly protests against these provocative measures." Nikiforov finished with an abrupt "No questions," and quickly retreated behind the embassy's heavy iron gates. As well he might, for the questions would only have added to the embarrassment of a Soviet intelligence establishment that had just suffered one of its biggest setbacks in at least a decade...
...been performed on the President's skin cancer. But, protested ^ Helen Thomas of U.P.I., "you were not candid." Speakes: "Do you want to say that I did not tell the truth?" Thomas: "Aw, come on, get off of that!" Speakes: "No, you come on!" Thomas: "You pulled an iron curtain down on the truth." Speakes: "Exactly right...