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...There had been so many lies, so many misconceptions," says Tina Turner, explaining why she wrote I, Tina, published this week by William Morrow. The title describes the new attitude she developed during her mid-1970s breakup with Ike Turner, who, she says, beat and abused her. "Instead of using 'we,' meaning Ike and myself, everything from that point on was 'I' -- what I think, what I want," reflects Turner, 47. Her wants are certainly being met. Last week she became the 1,841st celebrity to get her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And then there...
...critics fault the Army for not changing with the times, but Burrows rejects the criticism. "We're hardheaded as well as softhearted," she insists. "We won't hang on to things just because we've always done them." As head of women's social services in Britain in the mid-1970s, Burrows met new demands by converting orphanages into shelters for battered women, and in Australia she has inaugurated new efforts to train unemployed youths. In the U.S., Army leaders have cut back street-corner proselytizing and increased counseling services...
...Paris, members of the New Philosophers movement were powerfully impressed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's voluminous account, published in the mid-1970s, of the appalling Soviet Gulag camps for political prisoners. The period brought the spectacle of Communist Leader Pol Pot's genocide of perhaps 3 million Cambodians. Writer Bernard-Henri Levy blamed Marxism for Communist atrocities, and the charge resonated among French thinkers. Although their disillusionment was intellectual, it helped set the stage for Europe's economic shift half a decade later...
Today, however, the European Communist Parties are almost all in retreat after suffering disastrous setbacks at the polls. Even the Italian Communist Party, still the world's largest nonruling Communist Party, has watched its membership slide from a high of 2 million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
...Moon was made in 1902 by a French filmmaker named Georges Melies. Techniques were improved over the years in such landmark films as King Kong (1933) and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But most Hollywood studios had closed down their special-effects units by the mid-1970s, when Director Lucas set out to make a space adventure called Star Wars. To create the futuristic world he envisioned, Lucas set up his own shop in a Los Angeles warehouse, hired a crew of eager young technicians--and proceeded to change the look of movies forever...