Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first ratification test since Congress last year extended the deadline to 1982, the amendment was narrowly beaten in both Illinois and North Carolina, leaving it still three votes short of becoming the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. At the same time, state senators in Indiana, Montana and South Dakota tried to rescind their previous approval of the amendment, an action of questionable validity but one that reflects the measure's growing difficulties...
...Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last to the bathroom--and the movie ends with gunfire and a disclaimer from the interviewer...
...even that paltry accomplishment proved short-lived as the Big Red's line of Doug Berk, John Olds and Brian Marrett soon combined for two goals in nine seconds. First Olds and Berk set up Marrett, then Marrett and Olds set up Berk. Rob Gemmell (shorthanded), Tom Whitehead and Jim Gibson, aided by weak defensive play around the Harvard net and unsteady goaltending by Hynes, all scored before the period, mercifully, came...
...moral considerations, such as Carter's vaunted human rights policy, must be defined solely as an end, not a means, of U.S. foreign policy. Expressions of concern for human rights violations should not be used as a lever designed to knock a government off balance or to make short-term political capital. Too often the United States has callously and inconsistently used its human rights policy as a geopolitical bargaining chip without regard for genuine human suffering in many nations...
...Feel the Air contains a basically lighthearted approach to its theme. But its companion play, The Yellow Wallpaper, builds in unmitigated horror. The drama, adapted from an autobiographical short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, parallels the Colette story to an amazing degree--only from the opposite perspective. Gilman became very depressed shortly after she married--for no apparent reason, unlike Colette. Mr. Gilman was devoted, attentive, and gently bewildered by his wife's desire to become an author--killing her with kindness, in effect. She was finally committed to an insane asylum, where doctors told her she should quit writing...