Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college, was to be married. I couldn't imagine getting married so soon." She demands to know why you should get married anyway. Just to have kids? Why not adopt? It might be unfair to the kid, someone suggests. Probably, kids need both parents, they agree, both role models, to learn about relationships. They concur, tentatively, that parents themselves might need both parents to raise kids...
...sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal: "I do noi believe in public attacks on socialist countries, even where violations of human rights may occur...
...Much of the credit for this belongs to Helmut Schmidt. More than any other postwar Chancellor since der Alte?the late Konrad Adenauer?Schmidt has shouldered his way into the front row of international leaders and has increasingly shown that he is not afraid to play a great-power role. Thanks largely to Schmidt's imposing political skills, says one ranking British diplomat, "the West Germans have moved from an occupation mentality to an independence of mind...
Both fears and hopes are premature. No one is sure what role the new institution will play, and that very uncertainty has contributed to the voters' apathy during the campaign. For weeks, some 3,000 candidates representing more than 80 political parties from the extreme left to the far right have been on the stump, each pleading a vision of a new Europe. Though each country elects only its own candidates, major political parties-Socialists, Christian Democrats, Liberals -have formed loose al liances across national boundaries in what could be viewed as the embryo of a new layer...
...might expect Ullmann's acting to be a redeeming feature, but it isn't. Partly to exonerate her feeble efforts, it must be said that the role of Mama has not been written or developed. It is not even scribbled in. However, the mark of a professional is to be able to make something out of nothing. Instead, Ullmann lapses into a series of alternating smiles and frowns. There is no sense of emo tional conviction: it is as if she were making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly...