Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The government will guide the people in making Saigon an advanced city, civilized, strong and happy." That, last week, was the extravagant promise of Giai Phong (Liberation), the only newspaper permitted to publish in Saigon as the new Communist military administration continued to consolidate its rule. The new leaders were...
A white Frisbee skittered and soared across the spring afternoon as students scrambled between rows of sugar maples that marked the sidelines of a makeshift playing field. An uninformed visitor to the Tufts University campus in Medford, Mass., last week might well have decided that the "Third Invitational Mother'...
Slower Slump. To a man, the economists agree that the recession is nearing its end-although the rebound is not yet at hand. Production will probably continue drifting down through the spring, making the current quarter the sixth straight in which output has declined. Underscoring that prediction, the Government reported...
Comedy of Murders. This plot bears marked similarities to Elaine May's first feature, A New Leaf (1971), and the difference in the two movies reveals something about Nichols and his former partner. A New Leaf was dark, crazy and exhilaratingly wacky. The Fortune, which also becomes a comedy...
President Ford opened his television press conference last Tuesday by soberly intoning: "The war in Viet Nam is over." In Europe, celebrations marked the ending of another war-V-E day, May 8, 1945. The three decades separating the Allied victory in Europe from the American debacle in South Viet...