Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEOPLE MEET AND SWEET MUSIC FILLS THE HEART is an unlikely title for an even more unlikely film, a freewheeling satire on romantic melodramas and graphic sex movies. It comes as a pleasant relief in these Curious (Yellow) times...
Hopeful Gleams. Velasco may well have found foreign embroilments a relief from domestic affairs. After overturning the Fernando Belaúnde Terry government last year, the junta found the treasury drained by Belaúnde's freehanded spending and borrowing. Currently, construction is down 40% from 18 months ago, and sales of dry goods, medicines, cars and appliances have dropped 25%. Unemployment has risen to 10% of the working force. Velasco has resorted to ruling by decree, and hopes to lure investment through a policy of incentives and the easing of bank credit rates...
Neither message more than hinted at the tension that had hung over the Capital for eleven days. The relief in Washington was audible. New York's Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which would have initiated impeachment, said that he felt "like a woman who has just been delivered of a baby." While the possibility of continued investigation remained, Celler, like many others in Washington, wanted to see the case closed. He called the Fortas case "a Greek tragedy"-and again many in the Capital agreed...
...Russians could tell how successful their two latest Venus shots had been and how much information had been gathered about the enigmatic planet. Whatever they learned, the Soviets undoubtedly left some mark on Venus. On board the Venus 5 capsule, Tass reported, was a marker bearing a bas-relief of Lenin and the Soviet coat of arms...
...shrewdly exploits permissiveness while satirizing it, but such reservations do nothing to diminish People's raucous vitality. After the sociological tedium of Yellow, and the adolescent eroticism of such other Scandinavian imports as Inga and I, a Woman, Part II, the jaunty humor of People is a welcome relief...