Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Egyptian pilot said that the four U.S. F-14 jet fighters had threatened to fire if he did not cooperate. Abul Abbas, in an interview with Yugoslav Journalist Dobrica Pivnicki last week, hinted that shots were fired. "Suddenly, we heard a series of unusual sounds, and we perceived the flashes of shots," he said. A senior U.S. official firmly countered, "We did not fire a shot." No warning shots, no tracers? "Nothing except some very unmistakable English...
...epitomizes the Theater of Ideas: its centerpiece is a literal debate about what duties affluent nations owe to the impoverished masses of the Third World. The contestants are an idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting...
...lampoons his argument in dopey scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers of attempting a genuinely great play...
...fellow researchers, anthropologist Bonnie K. Holcomb and Swiss journalist Peter Niggli, conducted extensive interviews of nearly 250 randomly selected Ethiopian refugees in several regions of the Sudan...
...after her servant) and Creditors (hell in the shape of a triangle), Strindberg practices his own advice to other authors on the treatment of female characters: "Accuse them, blacken them; abuse them so that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri, a Finnish actress, or his third wife, Harriet, a Norwegian actress, would have disagreed...