Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week. All around the land Americans felt a sense of freshness and renewal. Perhaps nothing has changed, but spring makes it seem as though...
Even after months of grisly testimony, the jury's stern judgment came as a shock. It was as though the verdict had finally brought the ultimate horror of My Lai home to Americans, and acceptance of that horror was agonizing. The widespread initial reaction to My Lai?that no American soldier could have done such a thing?in many cases changed to the notion that Calley had only been doing his duty. In a new book called Sanctions for Evil, the title of one chapter sardonically sums up the horrendous confusion: "It Never Happened and Besides They Deserved It." With...
Trintignant's characterization is studiously and acceptably stern. But Bertolucci works the kind of terrible cruelty on his actresses that hasn't been seen since The Damned, a film to which The Conformist bears several other unhappy resemblances. Women in this film are either stooges (like Marcello's wife) or succubi (like the professor's), corrupted or ripe for corruption. They only serve to accentuate the film's air of perfumed decadence...
...Clark responded by flying to London to request additional troops and to ask that soldiers occupy Catholic neighbor hoods in Belfast and Londonderry to guarantee order. Prime Minister Edward Heath gave Chichester-Clark only 1,300 more men and refused to allow the army to take the kind of stern measures that might have appeased the Irish Prime Minister's right-wing critics...
Video-taped pinkies are beginning to face stern competition. In some of Osaka's hotel rooms, video-tape recorder systems have been installed. A flick of a switch near the pillow starts a video-tape camera recording activity on the bed. Afterward, another switch provides instant replays. Rooms so equipped are in steady demand: one couple attempting to sample the pleasures of an avec hotel was ordered by the maid to wait for a call at a nearby coffeehouse. "All the rooms are occupied," she said, "as usual...