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...reform-minded unionists of Solidarity could touch off a conflagration. Last week in Bydgoszcz (pop. 300,000), 140 miles northwest of Warsaw, the flash was almost struck. For three days, farmers demanding their own union, Rural Solidarity, had occupied a government building. Somehow, the tensions of the peasant sit-in swirled across town to another meeting at the Bydgoszcz provincial council building, where local Solidarity members and Rural Solidarity activists sought to discuss the situation with the Provisional People's Council...
...tall and erect and self-possessed. Her anarchic blond hair frames a face dominated by classic cheekbones and sulfurous dark eyes, suggesting a Faye Dunaway who does not yet know she is beautiful. She has the strength and solidity of a heroic sculpture-Maillol's Leda, perhaps-a peasant-goddess rooted in the earth. With this performance, Lange has passed from the status of minor curiosity as the heroine of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong to that of respected actress and, maybe, star. Jack Nicholson thinks so: he calls her "the sex star...
From the start, however, we know something is up--boy doesn't meet girl in Fresno. A teacher, instead, falls for a ravishing but ignorant peasant in a remote Russian village. The premise unfolds quickly. An unfortunate group of Soviet serfs living in a secluded part of the Ukraine has been smitten with a curse that renders them, and their descendents, totally dense. If anyone stays in Kulyenchikov for more than 24 hours, he, too, loses all intelligence. A long procession of teachers has attempted to break the chain by enlightening one student, but all have failed because...
Addressing the possibility of U.S. intervention in El Salvador's civil war, Ulises Torres, an exiled minister from Chile, said, "Even the most humble peasant knows the problem is not Cuba or the U.S.S.R. El Salvador's system of injustice is the main problem." Torres added that to avoid "a very scary situation," the U.S. should not initiate a conflict with Cuba over El Salvador...
...live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession, and in a well-managed final shootout...