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...statements yelled by the protesters at the speech were: “We will never forget the state terror waged by the FBI against peaceful political dissidents. We will never forget the FBI’s role in McCarthyism,” “Stop the Green scare, stop the unconstitutional repression of environmental activists,” “Free the Panther Eight. Justice for Herman Bell,” and “Close Guantanamo. End the lies, end the secrets...
...series of unexplained military maneuvers around Moscow last fall fueled rumors that the army had used scare tactics to pressure Gorbachev. A much repeated story speaks of a tense meeting of the Communist Party Politburo at which the President was forced to back away from economic reform and crack down on separatism...
...traveling to an interview with a retired New York Giants quarterback. But Halberstam’s Crimson writings jumped off the sports page to the front page, and they touched upon the Cold War concerns that would reappear throughout his life work. He reported on the Red Scare that swept the nation in the early 1950s, as Senator Joseph McCarthy and his allies took aim at the “Kremlin on the Charles” and as the newly-inaugurated President Nathan M. Pusey fired back...
...Dead by trans(atlantic)planting a whole gaggle of genres: the English-village comedy, the Wicker Man strain of rural horror, any number of Brit police TV series and its main reference point, the Hollywood action film. But the thing to cherish - and I hope I won't scare you away with this - is how bloody English it is. By which I mean, bloody funny...
...carry the film, which features frequent close-ups of their faces. Emotions run the gamut in “After the Wedding,” and the characters’ eyes, whether tearful or pensive, tell all. As the film is in Danish, the foreign -language factor could potentially scare away many casual viewers, but it would be a shame to miss this movie. Cleverly crafted and extremely well made, “After the Wedding” provides a powerful inspiration to reexamine life and reconnect with family—a lesson that deserves a hearing in any language...