Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet ministers, religious leaders and Bedouin chiefs gathered for the ceremony of mubaya 'a to kiss King Khalid 's face and shoul der and swear allegiance to him. Soldiers and bodyguards in red-and-white kaffiyehs held back the crowd; at one point, the new King thrust himself into the throng to lead forward a blind old man who had come to greet...
...trade-conscious Swiss, who are heavily dependent on good relations with the Common Market, where half the nation's exports are sold. The franc has been under pressure from the recent weakness of the U.S. dollar, and the Swiss are seeking closer economic ties with their neighbors - a thrust that is hardly helped by attempts to thwart the Common Market's policing authority. As one EEC official put it: "A lot of companies have their European headquarters in Switzerland. Something like this could happen every time we investigate one of them. Adams didn't turn the information...
...much concerned with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along...
...Influence for being "entirely tendentious: it's all planned, yet is isn't thought out." Her initial premise is wrong; Cassavetes is no Laingian disciple. Laing's The Politics of Experience is an ode to schizophrenia. He claims that they aren't really mad; but that society is. The thrust of the movie is not, however, to explore the reaches of madness but to scrutinize the problems of a love relationship. To call Cassavetes a Laingian is to assume that he analyzes what he sees the same way an intellectual does. But the only thread connecting his view of society...
...before the Yom Kippur War. For 1975 Jerusalem has already indicated that it needs an additional $2.5 billion in arms. Saudi Arabia's recent purchase of 60 easy-to-operate, Mach 1.6 Northrop F-5 "Tiger 2" fighter-bombers, at a cost of $756 million, has thrust it into third place as an American customer, ahead of Greece, West Germany, Spain, Canada and Taiwan...