Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shahanshah (King of Kings). Once dismissed by Western diplomats as an insecure, in effective playboy-King, this emperor of oil commands new respect these days, as much for his ambitions as for his wealth. By means of what he has called a "white revolution," the Shah is determined to transform Iran, a country that still includes nomads whose life-style has not changed in a thousand years, into a Middle Eastern superpower...
Pasquale Tato looks the part of Chee-Chee, but doesn't act it. His nervous semblance of bravado saps any conviction in his portrayal of Chee-Chee as a manipulator of deceptions; nor does he transform his uncertainty into the kind of brooding self-doubt that might have provided an alternate, though shaky, interpretation of a Chee-Chee torn in the existential dilemma...
...Bass because he thought it too abstract. It may be just as well: the movie is not substantial enough to support the kind of philosophical freight such a montage would imply. Phase IV works best as a weird thriller and as a showcase for Bass's talents, which transform a story that could have been entirely silly into a bit of necromancy that lingers like an omen...
...prepared to participate in an operation of the EEC that will try to channel part of the oil-surplus money into the Common Market and transform it into loans to those EEC countries that need financing of their deficits. I think that the German signature to such an operation will mean something for those who are the lenders. It will solve only a small part of the global recycling necessity. Close cooperation between the U.S. and the leading European industrial countries as well as Japan is of the utmost importance if we want to control the economic development...
...June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. When he was 18, Beirne (pronounced Burn) went to work as a telephone repairman earning 320 an hour; in 1937 he became president of a local affiliate of the National Federation of Telephone Workers; six years later he headed the N.F.T.W., and helped transform it into the C.W.A...