Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most intriguing point about Come Back, Africa. Only the cars and attire of the whites indicate that the year is 1959; otherwise, given the advanced state of affairs in the white-minority regime, all the events described in the film could well have taken place this week. 1959...nineteen years ago. Can that much time have passed since this damning indictment of South Africa was first made? The answer is a melancholy yes, which is a testimony to the power and paranoia of the white regime in South Africa, and to the willingness of the outside world to ignore apartheid...
...repaying a favor to a friend on Paris-Match. He said he hoped they wouldn't credit him. The A.P. photographer was snapping away, grumbling. "I'd rather be out coverin' civil rights marches, shit. Or a convention--them Kennedy people taught me how to buy a convention. Nineteen-sixty, there I was, lil' country boy from Dothan, Alabama, coverin' Johnson, shit, they'd paid off everybody. Paid off the goddam elevator boys. If you was with Johnson, you couldn't get an elevator for 25 minutes." Click click click. "Shit, this is weird, ain't it boy?" Indeedy...
...Nineteen months have elapsed since that tragic day in September; 19 months since the Justice Department investigation began. Only now do Michael Moffitt's original assumptions seem to be borne out by the facts FBI investigators have garnered. Moffitt is a soft-spoken 26-year-old. He is friendly, yet constrained; he seems to be goaded on by the urgency of his duties. The pain is there, but it is forceably overcome. Moffitt, who joined the IPS, a Washington-based think tank, five year ago and worked under Richard Barnett before joining Letelier, says he always worried about an attempted...
...idea of "Big Brother is watching you" à la Nineteen Eighty-Four is frightening and to be guarded against...
...Nineteen seconds into Rick Benson's sentence for hitting after the whistle, Bulldog captain Don Blue dumped the puck into the Harvard zone, and when Crimson defenseman Kevin O'Donoghue failed to get a handle on it, Carlsson took it off his stick and fired a shot that outraced Hynes to the lower left side of the cage...