Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Uruguay's economic troubles reached such a sad state that President Oscar Gestido declared his fourth devaluation of the peso since taking office last March. This time he used strong medicine: he cut the exchange rate to 102%, for the first time setting it at a realistic level in hopes of expanding trade and restoring confidence in the peso. Sure enough, Uruguayans began flipping their mattresses over and taking their hoarded supply of dollars to the banks to switch them for pesos...
...Psychedelic Supermarket, a damp basement garage just off Kenmore Square. No more than a dozen people sit at tables near the stage -- mostly teeny bopper couples with happy-colored beads and sad faces. Two workmen in cover-alls are folding up unused tables and chairs and dragging them past the three...
...toting three books, the Bible, John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. "I am sad," he noted, "that the Supreme Court could not uphold the rights of individual citizens in the face of deliberate use of oppression...
...Manhattan-bound subway train lurches on its way, long after midnight. Two by two, the passengers come aboard at successive stops: a crabby old Jewish couple, a soldier and his Oklahoma-born buddy with his left arm in a cast, two sets of middle-aged bickerers, a sad-eyed homosexual and the seedy intellectual he is unsuccessfully trying to seduce, a get-Whitey Negro and his worried wife, two love-happy hippies. Grand Hotel on wheels? The Subway of Fools? That, for about the first third of The Incident, seems to be the intent...
...director, Jack Clayton, treats their excesses straightforwardly. No tricky angles or fancy pans. His cast--Dirk Bogarde and a flock of children--is impeccable. The only mistake is the music, which sounds like a grown-up reminiscing about a sweet sad thing. The harshness of silence would have been more appropriate...