Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic western situation but unfortunately, Writer Tidyman and Director Eastwood (who also plays the title role) understand that one man's classic is another's cliché−and are anxious to make sure we know they know. Therefore they stress the mythic overtones that pop cultists are always finding in the standard western forms. All the ritual scenes−Eastwood's menacing entrance ride down Main Street, the saloon confrontation and the barbershop Shootout that establish his credentials as a law-and-order man−are handled so that the emphasis is on archetypicality rather than...
...Tripoli port as crammed as it is today. Modest but modern housing is going up everywhere. Yet, on the 20-minute drive into town from the airport, the brand-new divided highway goes by acre after acre of makeshift shacks perched precariously on the windswept desert. But the new stress is on agriculture. Gaddafi the Bedouin, brought up to revere trees as a source of food and shade, has ordered a massive land-reclamation program to make 700,000 acres of desert arable. (Cost: $800 million.) His aim is to make Libya self-sufficient in food...
Some blacks who live in high stress ghetto areas learn to tolerate and to adjust passively to the media images, Pierce said...
Mass media, especially television commericals, produce stress which shortens the life expectancy of blacks, a black Harvard psychiatrist said yesterday...
Pierce delivered a keynote address to about 150 persons at the Harvard Black Students Psychological Association's two-day conference on cultural stress in American society. The conference is being held at the Graduate School of Education...