Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film was made in Mexico by Alexandro Jodorowsky, a Charles-Mansonish-looking, sincere, 40-year-old Chilean of Polish-Russian parentage who was once a member and composer for Marcel Marceau's mime-troupe. Between TV, talk shows he now runs a Mexico City theatre and writes a comic strip "Fabulas Panicas" ("Panic Fables") for a newspaper in Mexico City. Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and is the hero of the film...
...stating that Steinstucken was part of East Germany. They left four days later after the Allies vigorously protested the action. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, General Lucius D. Clay made a symbolic gesture designed to calm frightened West Berliners. He took a helicopter across the "death strip" to Steinstucken and evacuated 32 political refugees; a day later, he created what may be the U.S. Army's smallest permanent armed garrison operating openly on foreign soil-a post staffed by three military policemen, who live in the basement of the mayor's house and patrol Steinstucken...
...houses or cottages belonging to West Berliners. Homeowners can reach their property for a few hours' outing only through a heavy steel-plated door in the Wall. They must summon a Vopo by pressing a black plastic button beside the door. Then they must cross the sandy death strip under the watchful eyes of Vopo sharpshooters and pass through yet another door in a second wall to reach their homes. A German family carrying picnic baskets through this grim gauntlet is one of the more memorable sights of post-Wall Berlin...
...result, the urban overcrowding that increasingly afflicts the living is having a similar effect upon the dead. Cemeteries are running out of room, and in no city is the problem more acute than in bustling Rio de Janeiro. Rio's 4.5 million are jammed into a narrow strip that runs between mountains and the sea, and the southern half of the city has already run out of space for the dead...
...starring the former criminal hero, James Cagny) and You Can't Get Away With It educated the screen audience about the omniscience and implacability of the Bureau and its Director. War on Crime, a comic strip drawn by a close personal friend of Hoover's, drew on FBI files for its plots. A highly successful radio series, The FBI--In Peace and War, captivated a nationwide listening audience. Thousands of children sent in boxtops for Junior G-Man badges and pictures of Hoover...