Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before returning to Washington, Kissinger had planned to fly from Israel to Turkey to discuss a proposed compromise plan on the Cyprus impasse with Premier Bülent Ecevit. At the last minute, the Ankara trip had to be canceled. Unable to form a new coalition government because of disagreements over Cyprus, Ecevit announced that he could not hold "serious" talks with the Secretary of State...
Following two snowless winters, which have spelled near disaster for the New England ski industry, business and tourist officials were merchandising the foliage as never before. Ski areas opened their chair lifts and gondolas for bird's-eye viewing of the foliage, and towns held foliage festivals, turkey shoots and lumberjack breakfasts. Travel agencies booked tree-watching tours on buses, sightseeing boats, antique steam engines and even World War I biplanes...
...MAJOR film from Turkey is cause for celebration, simply because there haven't been any in the last ten years. It's sad in a way that Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz), must be the best Turkish film by default, but it has also proved its worth against some tough foreign competition--including The Pawnbroker--winning the Golden Bear award for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1964. Directed by Ismail Metin and starring and produced by Ulvi Dogan, Dry Summer is a cinema verite account of village life in Western Turkey...
...aura of American westerns. There is that same kind of primeval fight for natural resources--like cattle-ranchers against sheepherders--but there is none of the glorification or romantic ornamentation. The conditions it describes are real and they have remained the same for centuries: in much of Western Turkey, where tobacco is grown, water and women are the sources of tension and feuding...
...Summerhas come to Harvard ten years too late, but it is no less relevant today than when it was first smuggled out of Turkey. It makes a good case for more cinema verite from underdeveloped countries...