Word: tangos
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Dominguez, however, questioned the sincerity of the Cuban desire for normalization. "It takes two to tango, and Cuba has not tangoed very nicely recently," he said...
...favorite subjects included nuclear war ("Who's Next?" about the arms race, and "We Will All Go Together When We Go,") personal degeneracy ("SMUT" and "The Masochism Tango") and human ineptitude in all its inglorious splendor. At the root of all Lehrer humor seemed to be the assumption that things could get better if only people stopped screwing up. He looked not for malevolence but rather for benign stupidity--not for evil but for incompetence...
...McWhirter was assigned for three weeks to Argentina, where he conducted more than 70 interviews with businessmen, newspaper editors, sociologists, rabbis and government officials. Says McWhirter: "Almost no one passing through Buenos Aires would think there was anything wrong there - the streets are peaceful, the restaurants full, and the tango clubs are still jammed until dawn. It is amazing how ordinary and normal some societies appear even when they are going through events that are, in fact, all but tearing them apart...
...libido exists, in part because these scenes are the film's only submissions to spontaneity. This Postman is a true period piece-not 1934, but the early '70s, when American and European directors were investigating functions of the apocalyptic orgasm from behind a modernist screen. Like Last Tango in Paris, Rafelson's Postman shows what his doomed lovers do but does not tell who they are. Their willful sex scenes are explicit and incandescent; their motivations are elliptical smoke signals viewed from the other side of Death Valley...
...Aviv. After three decades of war, Israel and Egypt had at last embarked on a peaceful reconciliation and, as a first step, exchanged ambassadors. Since then, the attempt by the two erstwhile foes to become good neighbors has unfolded like an uncertain and at times highly awkward tango...