Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dour, stocky political patriarch of South Africa, Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 60, has the ironfistedness his fellow Afrikaners call kragdadigheid. He was known as "Jackboot John" when he served as Justice Minister under his National Party predecessor, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (who was stabbed by a demented clerk on the floor of the South African Parliament in 1966). The son of a Transvaal farmer, Vorster in his youth joined anti-English Afrikaner nationalist movements, becoming a "general" in what was believed to be a terrorist wing of the so-called Ox Wagon Guard, a pro-Nazi movement. His militant opposition...
...figures. Party Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor Kakuei Tanaka after disclosures of large-scale corruption...
...Like its predecessor, That's Entertainment, Part 2 is heavy with show biz nostalgia that could be dispensed, like programs or refreshment, out in the lobby. The movie takes it for granted that everyone in the audience will grow misty-eyed over these snatches of glory past. What is more saddening, however, is that the musical form has stayed stubbornly stuck; its evolution ended, apparently, in mid-1950s Hollywood...
...committee's work was almost entirely founded on the three-year-plus investigation of yet another panel of five non-GSD faculty, the Hartman Review Committee. However, the report of the policy committee, which the panel has never released publicly, takes a markedly more lenient approach than its predecessor. The critical comment in the first study either is excluded altogether or fails to find its way into any of the policy committee's conclusions. Thus, while the first review committee agreed that Hartman had "legitimate" procedural and substantive grievances, the Academic Policy Committee concluded that Hartman's department has "sufficient...
...perhaps because the social message has been eliminated, Emmanuelle II is rather more upsetting than its predecessor. The human relations portrayed in the film are, if anything, more degrading and more empty than those of the first version. Emmanuelle, played (more or less) by toothy, leggy Sylvia Kristel, and her husband, played by Umberto Orissini, have agreed they are free to do whatever they wish, so long as they don't fall in love with anyone else. Where the dynamic tension in Emmanuelle I was provided by the breakdown of Emmanuelle's inhibitions, the only tension in this film comes...