Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sheik Mujibur Rahman, leader of the powerful East Pakistani Awami League, proclaimed independence Friday and called for East Pakistan to resist the central government...
...documents were anonymously mailed on March 18 to "Resist" - a national peace organization in Cambridge including among its members Noam Chomsky of M. I. T. - which subsequently gave the papers to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the CRIMSON and to Senator George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) and Rep. Parren J. Mitchell...
Burgess originally planned to be a composer. He is now halfway through writing music and lyrics for a musical version of Ulysses. He could not resist, either, printing in MF the music Miles hears in Castita-the same tune, successively done as a ballad, an anthem and a wedding march. He has completed two movie scripts and is itching to get behind a camera. "So much to learn," he mutters dejectedly, but he is investing in movie-tape equipment, and heaven knows who or what will be shot on the playing fields of Princeton...
These reversals amount to a "last-reel syndrome": you can get away with anything, so long as everything turns out all right in the end. We resist these endings now, just as one feels the people involved in the movie must have resisted their necessity. In a sense, we know better-Dietrich wouldn't have followed Cooper, just as gangsters (Cagney in Public Enemy or Muni in Scarface) don't have to die-and we ignore the insistence of the censors on "just retribution...
...with beauty tips and tidbits, both from the author and her friends. Model Mirella Haggiag, for example, recommends going back to sleep after the breakfast tray arrives: Princess Ira von Furstenburg prefers dinners alone (a man is sure to order "pasta or curry with rice, and how can one resist?"). Mrs. J. Paul Getty Jr. imports vegetarian pté from Holland to London, uses no eyeliner but the pure kohl she collects in Marrakesh. Emilio Pucci is high on massage ("I have two Filipino girls who come to the house: I would find it distasteful to be massaged...