Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early-morning radio program, then a stern voice declared: "The country is under the operational control of the Junta of the Commanding Generals of the Armed Forces." With that, Argentines last week heard the news that most of them were expecting: after 20 faltering months, the regime of President Isabel Perón had been toppled. In its place was a junta composed of the army, navy and air force chiefs, led by General Jorge R. Videla, 50, the army commander. By midafternoon, the generals had appointed a Cabinet of military men and pledged a "national reorganization to restore morality...
...recently reached the staggering rate of three per day (more than 2,200 Argentines have been killed by terrorists since Mrs. Perón came to power). Inflation was roaring at the pace of 600% annually and heading for 1,000% by the end of this year. But Isabel and her advisers clearly were unable to reverse the rising statistics of chaos...
More than 2,200 people have died in political violence and scores of others have been abducted by hooded terrorists since President Isabel Peron took office 20 months ago. But last week the violence took a new and ominous turn. A bomb exploded at the army headquarters in Buenos Aires, injuring 28 (including four colonels), killing a passing civilian truck driver, destroying a dozen vehicles, and even shattering windows more than 300 yards away in La Casa Rosada, the presidential palace. The left-wing Montonero guerrillas claimed responsibility for the blast, which seemed to signal an ugly change in their...
...Isabel Norby Whidbey Island, Wash...
...Pierre Leaud for one film, at least, is triumphantly vindicated. Leaud is a wonderful actor in some respects, but he is sui generis; one could no more imagine him in a role in this movie than Woody Allen could have taken a part in, say, Gone With the Wind. Isabel Adjani conveys all the levels of Adele's emotional life, though I suspect that the film might have been more effective if she looked older, more like the thirty she is supposed to be. Adjani manages to epitomize everything French--to be headstrong, passionate, egoistical, elegant, and sophisticated...