Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, pursuing another Carter campaign theme - that foreign policy ought to be aimed toward a world order "that is more responsive to human aspirations" - the State Department publicly criticized two Communist countries for their treatment of dissident citizens. First, Czechoslovakia was taken to task for harassing dissidents. The next day, in response to a question by a newsman, State issued a statement rapping Moscow for mistreatment of disaffected Nuclear Scientist Andrei Sakharov. It was the kind of criticism of internal Communist affairs generally avoided by Henry Kissinger...
Even fashion pictures of strong women seem designed to play on the fears of misogynist men. A Von Wangenheim photo in the current Vogue has a vagina dentata theme: a vicious dog faces the camera, with bared teeth directly in front of a woman's crotch. Doesn't the picture seem to say that women are sexual killers? "Well," rationalizes Von Wangenheim, "it works better that...
Poem after poem the third volume of Residence on Earth and of "Spain in Our Hearts," a work filled with indignation and pathos that he began a month after Garcia Lorca's death, reiterates that theme...
Casanova is Fellini's latest statement on a theme he is constantly exploring: the problem of the creator, the man who tries to restructure experience to make it art. Casanova of Fellini's imagining, who has tried to make his life's pursuit the transforming of the ultimate natural experience into art, who wants to transform the phrase "to make love" into an exact description, is a figure of the artist. Casanova has given up his humanity for art; lovemaking is something he must control and design. As a result, he succeeds in giving pleasure to others...
...tongue, Ipi-Tombi means "Where are the girls?" On the New York opening night, the show not only brought on the girls but also offered an offstage line of black pickets. The cause for complaint is that the musical was conceived and produced by South African whites. The reiterated theme of the pickets is that anyone who supports the show lends his approval to genocide and infanticide. That is an exaggerated description of South African racial policy, however much one may deplore...