Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Godard) who fancies herself a China doll. Godard pokes fun at her windy braggadocio and her comrades' pompous planning with numberless nose-thumbing cinematic tricks. Players step out of their roles to tell the camera their biographies. Scenes are interspersed with stills of Alice in Wonderland, pictures of Stalin, shots of comic strips. The director's off-camera voice constantly interrogates his performers, who stop acting to reply. Visually, La Chinoise is almost entirely successful. The rapid shifting of subject matter, the kinetic attack on the attention span, the dazzling use of primary colors and skeletal cinematic composition...
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who on Saturday became Canada's fifteenth Prime Minister, is an unconventional man. He drives fast cars and wears sandals into the House of Commons. He has thrown snowballs at Stalin's statue in Red Square, and has been blacklisted by the U.S. State Department for suspected Communist affiliations. As a Montreal professor and journalist, he has spent a good part of the last few years criticizing and ridiculing the same Liberal party which this month chose him as its new leader. And as he assume Canada's highest office, Trudeau's political career is still only...
...Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar and Silesian Party Boss Edward Gierek (TIME, March 29). As head of an organization of onetime underground fighters known as the Partisans, Moczar, 54, intensely dislikes the Jews in government because many of them returned to Poland with Russian troops and held posts during Stalin's time. He is anxious to see them dismissed, even more anxious to see them replaced with his own men. Gierek, who was the first national figure to condemn the "Zionists," is fond of the youth argument since, at 55, he is the youngest member of the twelve-man ruling...
Thus ended the career of one of Communism's most guileful and skillful leaders. One of Novotny's first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs...
...other a preacher. When the pixy handles the pen, it can turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like Marty. When the moral preceptor is in command, the result is likely to be a chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher of a title is only dimly related to the play, which is a symbolic satire...