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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would Hussein nevertheless still participate with Sadat in talks with Israel? "If we could see light at the end of the tunnel, we would not hesitate one second to negotiate. But we need a set of principles to provide that light." What sort of principles? "Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, with minor rectifications on a reciprocal basis on the West Bank [since borders there are cease-fire lines rather than logical boundaries], Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem, the right of return or compensation for Palestinian refugees, and the placing of West Bank and Gaza occupied territory under international auspices until...
...government. Partly as a result of the strong U.S. admonition against allowing Eurocommunists into power, they are more reluctant than ever to join the Communists in a parliamentary majority coalition. Explained one Western diplomat: "The stand of the Americans has encouraged those Christian Democrats who are opposed to any sort of Communist participation in government and made the others stop and think...
This is not the sort of creativity one expects to find preoccupying an austere and sober artist like Ingmar Bergman. Yet it must be said that his liveliest attentions in The Serpent's Egg are lavished on the marvelous Berlin city block, circa 1923, that Producer Dino De Laurentiis provided him for this picture. The thing comes complete with a real working streetcar, which the director sets to clanging at every possible opportunity. When he is not busy with that, he is filling his street with crowds in all kinds of moods, showing it at all times...
...almost universally agreed that, when earlier laws were passed, research exonerating cannabis from its alleged harmful effects was repressed. It is also agreed that research at the time that linked the drug to a variety of dangers was contrived and unreliable. Yet, out of a sort of cognitive dissonance at the federal level, legislators are reluctant to admit past mistakes. Despite growing evidence attesting to beneficial medical uses of cannabis, antique laws continue to deny patients this treatment...
...general character of the photographs is to convey sympathy with these trapped lives. Nowhere is it manifested more poignantly than in her pictures of women relaxing in the hospital bath. Such subjects, in other hands, might have piled voyeurism on intrusion. But in "Ward 81" they acquire a sort of elegiac sweetness, as images of bathers tend to do. After seeing the show, it is hard to think about madness and confinement in the same way again...