Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the world confirms the rarity of democratic leadership. Given the vastly diverse needs, traditions and social assumptions of the world's nations, it is extremely risky to venture any cultural generalizations. But some patterns seem evident nonetheless. In Black Africa, where the idea of a powerful paramount chief was deeply ingrained long before
...Threepenny Opera is often cited for its lyrical and musical inventiveness, qualities which the Loeb production brings to the fore. But the lasting power of the play lies in the persistence of the problems which were paramount to Brecht's political concerns--the perversion of human character by poverty and exploitation, the evils of monied power, and the shallowness of middle class virtue in capitalist society. The themes of his musical are broad, stark, and important--and all the more forceful for the Repertory's outstanding performance...
Other producers have put their millions into reviving the time-honored disaster-film-subcategory-pestilence. In addition to Phase IV, the saga of the marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen...
...Dismember Mama. Playing in Boston, paired with The Blood Splattered Bride. This seems an appropriate moment to mention that the new feature movies in town ain't so distinguished this week. At the Paramount...
Karefa-Smart traces his determined optimism and sense of community to his childhood among the indigenous tribes of Sierra Leone. His grandfather was Paramount Chief of the area, and concern for all of the Chief's subjects naturally flowed to others in the ruling family...