Word: socialistic
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...directors of propaganda films produced by states, especially conventional socialist states with their idiot stress on the homogenized man, fill their frames with crowds, great agglomerations shot from above, or from behind as they cheer some arm-waving uniformed leader. If individuals appear, they represent stereotypes--broad smiles, broader biceps. But the camera in Workers '80 singles out men. Some have the handome Walesa look, bushy mustaches, broad shoulders; some are bignosed, homely, dirty, or dumb-looking; for the most part, just people. Workers standing, arms folded, listening to the negotiations over public address systems. Workers knelling to receive communion...
This latest turn in Chad's murky political fortunes was unexpected and, like so many events that have preceded it, open to many interpretations. But if Gaddafi does indeed pull out all his troops, it would clearly be a triumph for the diplomatic tactics of the Socialist government of France's President François Mitterrand...
...renege on the 1979 NATO decision to base new U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe. In Britain, where anti-NATO feelings thrive in the Labor opposition, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government welcomes Mitterrand's position. "Such a firm stand is very helpful coming from a Socialist," a top official explains. "It enables us to point out to the left wing of the Labor Party that not all Socialists go along with unilateral disarmament...
With some of France's best legal and economic minds at its disposal, President François Mitterrand's Socialist Party had a full decade to plot how to fulfill a key campaign promise: the nationalization of major industries and private banks. Yet by the time the National Assembly approved the first batch of takeovers last week, 332 to 154, capitalists had found an embarrassingly gaping hole in Mitterrand's plan and put one of French banking's most glittering prizes out of reach of the Socialists...
Papandreou acquired a very strong national appeal, Macridis added, which came from "the very well-organized infrastructure of his party, Pasok [Panhellenic Socialist Movement...