Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite of his own films, and quite likely his finest. Steve McQueen is the kid who forsakes love and security to challenge Edward G. Robinson's supremacy at five-card stud. This film is for poker what The Hustler was for pool, and powerful performances by McQueen, Robinson, Karl Malden, Joan Blondell, and Tuesday Weld overcome some weaknesses in the script. Despite this glittering cast, however, the entire show is stolen by a cameo appearance by the Jack of Diamonds. Channel...
...respect Karl Marx for setting out the basic lines of socialism," says Kenji Miyamoto, chief of Japan's Communist Party. "But this does not mean that we are absolved from using our own brains in adapting Marx's tenets to the realities of modern Japan." Miyamoto is understating the case. Japan's Communist Party has not only adapted to the realities of a democratic country but has also forced the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to adapt itself to the unpleasant reality of a strong Communist opposition...
...Petersberg Hotel, where the Soviet leader and his retinue will be staying. Brezhnev will likely sleep in the same bed that Queen Elizabeth used in 1965. Seemingly more intent on work than recreation, Brezhnev declined West German offers of sightseeing side trips, including one to Trier, the birthplace of Karl Marx...
They paraded down West Berlin's Karl Marx Strasse, some 24,000 strong, under banners that defiantly announced their allegiance to Communism and the "class struggle." Yet few of the marchers were workers, and a good many had not even been born when Soviet troops tried to starve out West Berlin in the infamous blockade of 1948-49. Some of the youthful demonstrators melted into the beer halls along the way. Here and there, braless girls with sweaters tied around their hips joined in the march with a shrug and trudged along with shoulders back...
Thus, last week, a host of young European left-wing activists paid tribute to the ideas and ideals of a bearded German philosopher who died a pauper and was buried in London's Highgate Cemetery 90 years ago. Today, the powerful, shaggy visage of Karl Marx peers out of a bookstore window in Rome. It glowers over a meeting of young German Socialists at Hannover-Linden and a student gathering at Vincennes University on the outskirts of Paris. The name is scrawled on buildings and walls from Norway to Sicily, sometimes in elaborate quotations but most often only...