Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crichton departs from the formula in only one respect: whenever possible, he forces gratuitous cruelty between cliches. Dogs chew rats. A prisoner escaping from Newgate slices up his hands climbing the fence. Connery later strangles this poor innocent in cold blood. The funniest gag in the movie involves a decomposing cat. Nothing new for this butcher. In Crichton's Westworld, the most satisfying fantasies are also the bloodiest--robots blown to bits; one remembers brains being sliced up, organs flung about, dead bodies on dissection tables in Coma; now, Crichton gets his kicks injecting sadism into kiddie-movies. Bleah...
...visited there by General Fazhollah Zahedi, Mossadeq's disaffected Minister of the Interior once described by Soroya, the Shah's second wife, as "half swashbuckler and half Don Juan." Zahedi swashbuckled but was finally compelled to agree with Roosevelt that the prospects for a successful coup were poor. The Shah was depressed and dispirited, incapable of taking any decision, while the armed forces seemed increasingly behind Mossadeq...
Finally, her quote that "People just aren't used to the values I represent" implies that I represent a poor set of values. I don't consider working hard in an academic as well as an artistic field to be representative of a person with a poor set of values that "people just aren't used to." Thomas N. Parsekian
...year ago the CELAM staff sent bishops a "preparatory document" for the current meeting. It contained only tepid criticism of militarism and of violence aimed at priests. The poor were offered "the happiness of the [spiritual] kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Outraged liberals charged that a campaign was afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them...
...important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero, a hero to the poor, was not elected by his conservative colleagues and will attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head of the Helena Rubinstein branch as one of the non-episcopal delegates, which led Mexico's respected journal Proceso to fume, "Without...