Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freedman here has not settled on a specific city, but he has chosen to make his Caesar a Latin American caudillo, who enjoys wearing his military uniform with its gold braid and rows of campaign service ribbons. Our century is familiar with such personages: Peron in Argentina, Estrada Cabrera and Ubico in Guatemala, Gomez and Perez Jimenez in Venezuela, Vargas in Brazil, Hernandez Martinez in El Salvador, Ibanez in Chile, Stroessner in Paraguay...
...admits: "That's a lot." The Bee Gees are dishing up a new album in February that Coury predicts will be "a gorilla." There will be new albums from the small roster of 13 RSO acts, and a record package of Evita, a pop-top opera about Eva Peron that is S.R.O. in London. Al Coury has to love it all. "I don't love vacuum cleaners and underwear. But I love music, and I can sell it." And it will be sold. What comes out of the RSO outfit may not seem a whole lot like real rock...
...they would cheer a loss or a kiss-your-sister draw. For one thing, Argentina's inflation rate during the past year has been a staggering 170%-highest in the world. More important, the Argentines have survived-most of them-a decade in which the disastrous Juan Peron returned from 18 years in exile to spread economic and political chaos. It has been a time in which the left-wing Montoneros murdered, kidnaped, tortured and spread terror at will, and in which the present military junta of President Jorge Rafael Videla has savaged the Montoneros and the more reasonable...
...Juan Perón 's widow Isabel, inflation in Argentina was galloping at an annual rate of 350%. The Treasury, down to its last foreign reserves, was about to default on its overseas debt. Then, on March 24, in a bloodless, clockwork coup, the military deposed Isabel Peron from the presidency. Led by the Commander in Chief of the army, Jorge Rafael Videla, the new junta set two goals: crushing terrorism and reviving the economy. How well has it done? Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cabled this assessment...
Mira Nair as Creon's wife Pilar also gives Antigona plenty to react to. Vain, evil and ambitious, Nair survives what must be poorly translated lines with the proper doses of viper and Eva Peron...