Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the provinces and have their own local bases of power away from Madrid. Before long, the statements they usually issue after each session were taking strong exception to such unpopular Cortes measures as the "regressive" Official Secrets Law and the 1968-69 national budget, and a delighted press could hardly wait to headline the latest blast from los trashumantes sin rodeos (the nomads who don't beat around the bush...
...learned, that was hardly what the demonstrations had been about. Egypt's students are chafing under harsh regulations of their conduct, including a ban on all public demonstrations. They have nothing but contempt for what they call "the society of coined slogans" produced by Nasser's controlled press. What is more, they bitterly resent the government's system of job placement, which often finally assigns them to fields for which they are unprepared...
Their demands were varied: the release of Bhutto, improvements in education, better living conditions, press freedom, an end to emergency laws and to Ayub's presidential system, which is based on a narrow electoral college of 120,000 privileged people. Demonstrations, some peaceful, some unruly, hit at least three dozen towns and cities in both West and East Pakistan...
...surprising. But there were other signs shrieking "Go Home Gregory Peck," and that seemed curious. What upset the left wing was The Chairman, a film in which Peck plays a U.S. scientist who enters Red China to help a Chinese colleague escape from Mao's clutches. The Chinese press railed at the moviemakers for "insulting the cultural revolution and provoking 700 million Chinese people." In Hong Kong, the anti-Peck campaign, complete with bomb threats and promises of demonstrations, finally reached a point where the government canceled the filming, which sent everyone off to Taiwan to shoot remaining scenes...
Noon and Night play it safer and softer. Terrence McNally redoes French farce à la Grove Press in a play where all the vice is versa. A heterosexual is mistaken for a homosexual, a pair of mild Babbitts turn out to be, in tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging...