Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What had gone wrong? One theory favored by Sinologists was that Deng Xiaoping had concluded that his people had let off enough steam, and that further permissiveness by party leaders was an invitation to anarchy. In fact, China's press for the past few weeks has been filled with strange stories about youthful rebellion. In Shanghai, thousands of unemployed youths who had illegally returned from enforced stints in the countryside rioted near a city employment office in protest against the lack of jobs. According to some wall posters, unemployment had forced girls into prostitution and turned men to become...
Unruffled as ever, Thatcher introduced the Conservative manifesto at her first open press conference for both the British and foreign press. She presented and defended a document that promised income tax cuts at all levels, a curb on secondary picketing, secret ballots in union elections, cuts in government spending except for defense and the police, a stop to further nationalization, and an end to government interference in wage negotiations in private industry. The Tories also called for a change in British policy toward Rhodesia, which would bring a Thatcher government into confrontation with the Carter Administration. Although...
...radical and no longer collective, and neither are most of the nation's other so-called alternative, or underground, newspapers. Ten years after Woodstock-and nearly a quarter-century after the Village Voice was launched as an alternative to New York City's conventional dailies-the alternative press has become so established that it is very nearly Establishment itself. Gone for the most part are the radical polemics, scatological prose and serendipitously amateur design that were staples of underground journalism. In their place are entertainment listings, movie and record reviews, consumer buying guides, elegant graphics...
...alternatives have always tried to cover the news in a more analytical way than the conventional press. Their editors see themselves as subjective, irreverent and at odds with the local power structure. The Bay Guardian, for instance, rails regularly at Pacific Gas and Electric, the two San Francisco dailies, the " Mannattanization" of the city's architecture, the Chamber of Commerce and anything else it considers high or mighty. The alternatives also like to feature unknown writers and publish long, idiosyncratic articles. The Chicago Reader once printed a 19,000-word piece on beekeeping...
...brooding rock exerts a primitive magnetic force on some of the girls. Four, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert), leave the group to explore it more closely. One, chubby and asexual, turns back, but the other three press on. Two of them (along with a teacher answering some mysterious impulse to join them) are never seen again. One girl is rescued some days later but never speaks about what may or may not have happened on Hanging Rock. Nor does the film, based on a thriller by Joan Lindsay, offer any definite explanation. It does explore the rational efforts...