Word: tins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even so, the government does seem to be making inroads. To convert a single hamlet from a rating of V even to D requires not only tons of ammunition, miles of barbed wire and nightly counterinsurgency ambushes, but also vast amounts of cement, tin, fertilizer, sweat and blood. The hamlet of Trinh Phu is a case in point. One year ago, government troops entered Trinh Phu for the first time in a decade. To look at pacification in terms of people rather than printouts, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth paid a visit to Trinh Phu, a partially pacified hamlet with...
...military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign in the troubled, underproductive tin mines. But after a few months, conservative businessmen and military hard-liners helped edge Ovando back toward the center, alienating many of his former supporters. He dropped the leftists in his Cabinet and ordered into retirement General Juan José Torres, his army chief of staff and liaison man with...
...painful patches of dialogue will discover a film that is curiously sensitive and affecting. Screenwriter James Bridges (The Appaloosa, The Forbin Project) makes his debut here as a director; his sympathetic approach to the principal characters and an admirable sense of directorial pace eventually overcome his stereotypes and his tin ear for conversation. Even so, Bridges could not remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne as Jay and Suzanne Wilcox, the childless couple. The film's strength lies in the delicate interaction...
...request for equal time comes from Emma Wallop, a small-town Midwestern widow and retired nurse who wakes one day to discover that her former boarder, Randy Rivers, has published a bestselling novel entitled Don't Look Now, Medusa. A tin-plated Spoon River Anthology, it has as its main character a small-town Midwestern landlady, like Emma herself, given to dislocated clichés and malapropisms...
...storage in data banks by different branches of the government, by private firms, or by complexes such as the Cambridge Project, is a logical product of the bureaucratic and technological rationale for investigation, more information, and expertise. Whether the subject be the political behavior of Guatemalan peasants or Bolivian tin miners, the reaction to urbanization of South Vietnamese peasants or ghetto blacks, the rationale is that if only we had more Knowledge about the problem, if only data were quantifiable and immediately retrievable, then human behavior and events would be more predictable and thus more controllable. It is a logical...