Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was an old woman who lived in a semidetached shoe box. She had two too many children, who didn't know what to do in Margaret Thatcher's England. And neither did their spouses, their lovers, their friends, their neighbors or, for that matter, the little old lady...
Leigh, whose rigorous improvisational techniques have made him a guru of British theater (Goose-Pimples) and TV (Abigail's Party) for two decades, brings to his work the same anti-Thatcher animus that energizes much of today's British cinema. But unlike Laundrette and the rest, High Hopes derives much of its energy and some of its best comic strokes from a conscious, open acknowledgment that to be postmodern is also to be post-Marxist. In a time when people rise and fall freely, unhindered by traditional class structures, they become, according to Leigh, quite unhinged by their inability...
...idea of politicians as leaders in the ecology movement seems strange, even more surprising is who agreed to be the closing speaker at the London conference: Margaret Thatcher. Though she has long been accused of being insensitive to environmental issues, the Prime Minister promised last week that Britain will push manufacturers to eliminate chlorofluorocarbons from new refrigerators -- evidence that these days even the most conservative leaders are worried about the environment...
Even Margaret Thatcher's devotion to the free market has some limits, it seems. Reacting to newspaper reports that poor Turkish peasants are being paid to go to London and give up a kidney for transplant, the British Prime Minister said that "the sale of kidneys or any organs of the body is utterly repugnant." Emergency legislation is now being prepared for swift approval by Parliament to make sure that capitalism does not perform its celebrated magic in the market for human organs...
...Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...