Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim but also the executioner, and her heartlessness is equalled only by her astonishment at the havoc she wreaks. To her credit, Anne Clarke manages to wrest a characterization out of this maze of contradiction, and falters only when the script itself cannot sustain her. She is able to present Lulu sympathetically, with the right mixture of helplessness and hardness...
...crowd that heard Marley was varied: Harvard students, black and white high school kids, and some older folk who ranged from burnt out dead-heads to people in African garb. The crowd was controlled not by Harvard, Boston and MBC police, although there were some present. It was controlled by the "People's Security". They were dressed in black pants and red shirts with a fist on the back. Some wore berets or military fatigue hats. They were like South American guerillas, but badly organized. The gates to the concert were opened later than even the organizers expected, causing...
Dick Gregory, who introduced Marley and who was present at the press conference, also seemed to sense Marley's vulnerability. The singer was slow to respond to questions, and when he did so his words were almost inaudible. He was silent for very difficult questions and the articulate Gregory spoke for him almost every time he could not answer...
...several hours of discussion with Bowdler, the opposition junta responded with a program that the U.S. envoy described as "quite a bit different from the one that we were thinking of." In brief, the junta demanded 1) Somoza's immediate resignation, to be accepted by Nicaragua's present servile congress; 2) the installation of the junta as the country's new government under a new constitution; and 3) the amalgamation of acceptable elements of the National Guard with Sandinista fighters in a new law-and-order force. The group promised that all Somoza officers and civil servants...
...believe they put the world in an extreme situation. These decisions have unfortunately been taken without regard for their general effects, one of which will be to cause a certain amount of recession. Together with the inflation in the present-day world, this recession will upset the economy even more. I am especially concerned for the developing nations, which are going to be cut as if by a pair of scissors. One of the scissors blades is the price of oil. The other is recession in the powerful countries, which will impede exports from the poor nations, thereby cutting...