Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...futuristic vision it is conservative, as a satire Zardoz is radical. In its contempt for scientific progress unalloyed by humanism, in its parody of man's attraction to death over life, in its mockery of religious faith, "the good life," and beauty and truth alike, Zardoz digs away at most of our rationalizations for living. As an alternative, it offers death: the first pastel holocaust I've seen on the screen. It is, as they say, worth the price of admission alone...
Leaders at COPA have made some progress combating the political apathy that Portuguese oppression has stamped in the Portuguese people, but COPA is aware that it is up against too big a psychological obstacle to expect immediate success...
...reply, Brandt insisted that the EEC had kept Washington fully informed of progress on the French proposal. The West German leader ended his letter on a conciliatory note, by inviting Nixon, on behalf of the EEC, to visit Europe at the end of April. At his Friday press conference, Nixon rejected the EEC invitation, declaring that "until Europe is...willing to cooperate on the economic and political front, no meeting of heads of state will occur...
...even some technocrats who have guided Brazil's development reluctantly concede that progress has largely benefited an elite few. Despite the forest of new skyscrapers rising in booming Sào Paulo and the highways cutting through the "green hell" of the Amazonian jungle, perhaps 70% of the nation's people still live outside the money economy in appalling poverty. Brazil stands only 13th among Latin American nations in per capita income ($520 a year), below even backwaters like Surinam. The average life expectancy is only about 50 years (against 67 in Castro's Cuba), and infant...
...irrigation systems. To create their desert art, these early Peruvians removed strips of the topmost layer of stone, piece by piece, exposing the lighter-colored dirt underneath. They apparently made their precise markings without modern tools or surveying gear or even a high platform from which to view their progress...