Word: sellout
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...primarily a social occasion. It has become an annual two-week ritual for movie buffs to gather in the lobbies of Lincoln Center, trade gossip, champion favorite films and, inevitably, castigate the witlessness of the selection committee, whose choices, nevertheless, were both diverse enough and shrewd enough to guarantee sellout houses. Among the more notable...
...session this week to ratify the agreement, and the Indian Parliament is expected to do the same. The accord, which Mrs. Gandhi called "just the beginning" of a better relationship, also won warm praise in India, despite charges by the right-wing Jana Sangh Party that it was a "sellout...
Moment of Truth. Barzel, the reputedly clever tactician, was shortsighted and defiant, and helped paint his party into a tight corner by adamantly opposing ratification. The C.D.U. leaders repeatedly charged that the treaties were a sellout of German interests to Moscow. Privately, though, they hoped that the treaties would pass, so that the party should not bear the onus of holding up detente. Thus both sides procrastinated until the moment of truth arrived-and the result was what one Bonn political observer describes as "a grade-B performance-Brandt and Barzel...
Nationalists denounced the new policy as a "sellout," "hoax" and "one big zero" and threatened to make it a hot issue in the forthcoming Canadian election campaign. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may well beat them because he has taken aim at an unpopular form of investment. Takeovers, mostly by U.S. firms, account for only 17% of the flow of foreign investment money into Canada, but they are especially noxious to many Canadians because they do nothing directly to expand production or jobs but only transfer ownership to outsiders. Whatever happens in the next election, it would be a grave mistake...
Jackboot Unionism. Protesting what they regarded as a sellout, 6,000 Protestant shipyard workers walked off their jobs and marched on Belfast's city hall, carrying Union Jacks and the red cross flag of Ulster. William Craig, the right-wing former Home Minister who heads the militant Ulster Vanguard, warned that "Ulster is closer to civil war today than it was yesterday." He called for a massive, two-day strike this week by Protestant workers who man Ulster's public services, and vowed that the shutdown would be only the beginning. "We have the power to make government...