Word: love
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides the revolution, love of country and eventual reunification with the South, the central message promulgated by President Kim is juche (pronounced joo-chay), which roughly translated is "mastery of one's destiny." Applied nationally, it means that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea must be utterly self-reliant. Everything, in fact -from trucks and locomotives to scissors and machine tools-is homemade. A plant manager is apt to boast that no foreigner has ever been involved in his operation. "The quality might not be too perfect," one official admitted about consumer goods, "but they are good...
...Love songs like diary notes stuffed in a bottle and set adrift; quick, clenched passages of autobiography set down before the wounds heal and while the wit is still fresh. All in three-part harmony, mind...
True, the couple's puppy love gets a bit too sticky (especially when Ike's own pet puppy intrudes upon the action). At one point, the hero actually tells Kay, "There are times when everyone needs affection and compassion-even a general." Thank God there is a war going on. To break up the moony romantic scenes, Ike offers a colorful tour of the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and the debacle of the Kasserine Pass. Evocative old newsreels, with their Lowell Thomas narration blessedly intact, fill in the skirmishes that are not covered...
...Lane), the stepdaughter of an overseas American corporate executive, reads Heidegger for kicks. These two meet, go steady, then flee their meddling parents by traveling by train with Olivier from Paris to Venice. Hokey as it seems, this film's Romeo and Juliet want to pledge their eternal love by kissing in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs...
...hairy. He takes her to his wagon, where she commits the grave faux pas of reaching for his pants, which makes him angry. She questions him and he says, "You make the gesture of a whore." He caresses her for days but refuses to make love to her. "Hilda felt that the female in her was being taught to submit to the male, to obey his wishes. She felt that he was still punishing her for the gesture she had made..." Finally one day she breaks the heel of her shoe and he has to carry her. Apparently excited...