Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan often has been the darling of the news media. The media blindly and eagerly pursues its role as his propaganda tool. His policy of "limited access" allows him to maintain a distance from the press...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY'S The Sacrifice is without a doubt the most passionate cinematic account to date of the individual's struggle to keep heart and soul together in a world weighed under by the nuclear burden. It's prophecy, propaganda, and apocalyptic parable, shot through with a sense of moral indignation at once rabidly didactic and rationally hysterical...
...passing, as related by South Korean transcripts of the loudspeaker announcements, had an almost surreal quality. Normally used to broadcast mind- numbing Communist propaganda across the DMZ, the loudspeakers reportedly came alive just after noon on Sunday with somber music. Forty minutes later, with ! no explanation, an announcer began reciting the North Korean leader's lifetime accomplishments, including his World War II service in the Soviet army. After another six hours the announcer began hinting -- opaquely, to say the least -- that Kim's career was finally at an end: "Our leader Kim Il Sung flows in the river...
...public reappearance proved that accounts of his passing had been greatly exaggerated. Thus the hottest diplomatic game of the week became trying to figure out who had been doing what to whom. As antagonists of 36 years' standing who regularly wage often arcane propaganda wars against each other, both North and South Korea had plenty of motives to engage in political fabrications. Both countries, moreover, have lately shown signs of instability that could somehow have played a role in the strange episode...
...Pharaonic in its intensity. He has erected larger- than-life statues of himself in virtually every North Korean city, and inspired a school curriculum based on adulation of his teachings. Korea watchers in the U.S. doubt that he would trifle with his self-created legend merely to score a propaganda victory. Says a Reagan Administration official: "It's awfully difficult to imagine they'd do that. Kim Il Sung is like Stalin at the peak of his power...