Word: pre-war
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...between legal frontiers, geographical borders and defense lines. He suggested that "there may be extensions of Israeli defense capability beyond the permanent and recognized borders"-meaning something like the monitoring posts manned by Americans in the Sinai. He noted that Israel would probably need some "minor adjustments" of its pre-war 1967 borders. Although Nixon once alluded to "defensible borders" and the need for some eventual Israeli withdrawal, Carter is the first President to suggest publicly that Israel might have to give up almost all Arab territory it seized...
...wish that directors would cut out these nostalgic and unimaginative throw-backs to the classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill out thanks to Benton's cleverly constructed script and his skillful direction. Bit by bit, he manages to do about as fine a job of taking the pre-War detective format and creatively putting it in the 1970s as Robert Altman did in The Long Goodbye...
Intellectual Allure. The son of a Yorkshire chemist, young Harold was probably drawn to Labor more by the intellectual allure of its pre-war Fabianism than by any burning class consciousness. "I haven't read Marx," he admitted. "I got stuck on that footnote on page 2." He joined the civil service in 1940 to aid the war effort, leaving his post as an economics don at Oxford; three years later, at age 27, he became chief economist in the wartime fuel and power ministry. At 29 he won a seat in Commons, where he has remained...
...other inmates must choose either to do whatever may be necessary to survive, however vile, or be willing to die. Pasquale's character is defined by his acceptance of this choice, by his willingness to do anything in order to live. As a low level Mafioso in pre-war Naples, known as Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) because of his inexplicable success with women despite his unattractiveness, he kills the local pimp who has corrupted his less than pristine sister, in the defense of family honor. Having failed to dispose of the body undetected, Pasqualino must choose between honor and survival...
Wertmuller reveals Pasqualino's history through a series of flashbacks which represent his reflections in the camp. To sustain his struggle for survival, Pasqualino draws on the experiences of his pre-war life, from his first romance to his mother's advice. this intercutting of past and present constantly reminds us that Pasqualino is making decisions, he is consciously choosing his actions rather than simply following the exigencies of the situation. Through this device, Wertmuller shows that those actions of Pasqualino's which appear to represent the most radical surrender of self-hood are animated by his desperate desire...