Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tyndall, who has been with HILR since its beginnings, says she already notices a difference in the social life within the program since it has grown to nearly four times its original size...
...addition to the many medical projects going on, professors at the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School are dealing with the complex social and legal aspects of the disease...
...Beverly Hills and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Parador director Paul Mazursky and star Richard Dreyfuss worked together in Beverly Hills, while Parador's other stars, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, appeared together in Spider Woman. Also, Parador, like Beverly Hills, means to be a comedy of social and cultural clashes, while using the political instability of a Latin American dictatorship as a backdrop, like Spider Woman...
THIS is about as deep as the political satire gets. Noah falls under the spell of the dictator's mistress--now his mistress--Madonna Mendez (Braga), who appeals to his conscience and presses him to effect social reforms, which he does with remarkable ease and neatness. If Mazursky seems politically naive here, that is to be expected. His Moscow on the Hudson and Beverly Hills were similarly naive. They were also bittersweet comedies, in the same vein as Parador, and none of these movies aspires to anything much higher than that...
Despite its potential for satire, Moon Over Parador doesn't leave you with any significant social statement about Latin American politics. Still, it is funny enough not to disappoint you or leave you with anything to moon over...