Word: quarrelling
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...best of Visconti's scenes look honestly at the appalling depths of brother love: two of the brothers quarrel over a girl, and one of them rapes and eventually murders her, yet is forgiven. But the acting is pointlessly, if deliberately, melodramatic; the murderer needlessly apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera...
...cold war, and the West's strategists have studied every scrap of evidence to help map its dimensions. The split was papered over at the meeting of all the world's 81 Communist parties in Moscow last winter. Last week there was new evidence that the quarrel between the partners is becoming increasingly acrimonious. Writing in the London Sunday Times, Polish-born Kremlinologist Isaac Deutscher revealed an astonishingly bitter, point-by-point indictment of Peking policy "just sent out from Khrushchev's offices in Moscow to the headquarters o-f several foreign Communist parties." Among Moscow...
After any military coup d'etat, the danger point comes when the zealous soldiers run out of ideas and into the hard facts of reality. It is then that they begin to quarrel and plot against one another. Last week, after only a month and a half, South Korea's military revolution was already devouring its own offspring. Out went Junta Boss Lieut. General Chang...
...British, insisting that they were anxious to get out as soon as Kassem dropped his demands, offered their own resolution, which called upon the U.N. to support Kuwait's independence and territorial integrity. The Russians, as always unwilling to see a good quarrel settled, briskly vetoed...
Radio Hanoi has been wooing the Meos for years with Meo-language broadcasts, but the tribe reportedly split into pro-and anti-Communist factions after a quarrel over the division of the opium crop. Colonel Vang and his cousin, Health Minister Touby Lyfoung, lead the loyalist Meos. The Pathet Lao Meos follow Chief Phay Dang, described by Communist Journalist Wilfred Burchett, who once visited him, as "a noble figure with a fine head, the dignity and poise of a great Indian chief...