Word: scantiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film captures the dark, gray quality of drab Berlin, Bergman has punctuated the gloom with bright and often zany scenes. "After years of crying for him," says Liv Ullmann, who plays Manuela, the nightclub entertainer whom Carradine loves, "Ingmar has finally allowed me to sing and dance." Wearing the scantiest of costumes, Ullmann was ordered to perform badly a bawdy German ballad called I Have a Sweet Bonbon for the audience of the sleazy cabaret called the Blue Mule...
Beyond that, there is the challenge of meeting the needs of the world's burgeoning population, which all but doubles in a generation. The problem is most severe in developing countries, where birth rates are highest, food supplies scantiest and famine as close as the next crop failure. Last year, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, farm output in 42 developing nations actually dropped by 1%. As a result, some of these countries now face outright starvation. Until the developing world can learn to tap its own fast-growing potential-and curb its runaway population...