Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they worried about the possible impact of the landslide vote in California, even critics of the antitax movement expressed some sympathy for the psychology motivating the drive. "There's a tremendous paranoia sweeping the country," observed Amo DeBernardis, president of Oregon's multicampus, property-tax-supported Portland Community College. "People feel helpless about the way their government is headed, and this is the only way they can fight...
...Rights Monitor Yuri Orlov, Carter declared that the Soviets' abuse of such rights had earned them "the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom." "By their actions," Carter added, "they have demonstrated that the Soviet system cannot tolerate freely expressed ideas, notions of loyal opposition and the free movement of peoples. The Soviet Union attempts to export a totalitarian and repressive form of government, resulting in a closed society...
...power last year on a platform proclaiming that Israel's right to the West Bank was "eternal." Many of Begin's countrymen are even more adamant in arguing the Bible-based claim to the area. Last week Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a religious nationalist movement led by Hanan Porat that has sponsored many of the West Bank pioneers, demanded that the government confiscate Arab land to provide for new Jewish settlements...
...N.P.D., there are an estimated 126 illegal neo-Nazi groups in West Germany. None of them has more than 300 members. Some of them are "alte Nazis" or oldtime Hitlerites like Manfred Roeder, 50, a disbarred lawyer who leads the Deutsche Bürgerinitiative (the German People's Movement). Roeder, who recently disappeared underground to escape charges of "public incitement," has damned the present West German government as an "illegal piece of dirt run by criminals." Whoever thinks otherwise is "a Jew-loving idiot...
...white-on-white stylizations, à la Busby Berkeley, while others are shot realistically - and sloppily - in places like the high school lawn. Chorus members are not even given attitudes they can maintain when they are in the background of a shot. Camera work is film school simple, and movement within shots does not even reach the levels we are accustomed to in TV, whence Kleiser sprang or, more properly, stumbled. Even the lip-sync in the musical numbers is terrible...