Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadly and mysterious web of murder and corporate intrigue. The film's atmosphere, evoking a sinister world whose logic is not apparent at the surface, is exactly what Polanski was trying to achieve in Chinatown. Welles's eccentric camera angles are carried to new extremes which accentuate the uncertain character of reality in the film; in particular, the climatic shootout in a hall of mirrors is not to be missed...
...neighboring South Africa. Smith appears unmoved by recent nationalist successes in Mozambique and Angola and changes in South African policy which have combined to transform Rhodesia's status from that of a white buffer state firmly supported by Pretoria to a tenuous peninsula of white minority rule with uncertain South African support. Vorster has repeatedly stated that he would rather see a stable black government in Rhodesia than an unstable white one, and he realistically fears that the outbreak of open racial war in Rhodesia could easily spread southward. But Vorster is not joined on this issue by the majority...
High School Semiotics. The last part of the show, dealing with the past 25 years, provokes real unease. Here a mixture of uncertain taste and polemical narrowness has given a shaky and partisan reading to history. One curator in particular, Marcia Tucker, seems flatly prejudiced against the very idea of sculpture as a solid, weighty or highly modulated object. Her selections seem meant to prove that in the past decade sculpture has advanced historically by denying its own material essence. Moreover, "with a few exceptions," she declares, "present-day sculpture has generally rejected anthropomorphic, transcendental, nostalgic and metaphysical content...
...retreat if not totally routed. Despite flurries of police busts, sporadic prosecutions and a growing sense of unease among many Americans about the gross new world in which they find themselves, most of the traditional barriers to porn are now down. The laws against pornography are uncertain, full of loopholes; harassed law-enforcement officials usually have neither the will, the funds nor the community backing to wage an effective war on pornography; juries will often not convict. Pornography, says Raunch King Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, is becoming "part of the mainstream of American life...
...just at a time when such pressure might affect a U.S. presidential campaign. Specifically he is looking for U.S. military equipment and assistance to replace the Russian aid denied him. In Israel, the idea of Washington arming Egypt has raised angry protests. U.S. Jewish voters, too, are disturbed and uncertain about Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's proposal to sell a package of six C-130 cargo planes to Egypt for $50 million. Supporters of Israel see the C-130s as only the first item on a long list of sophisticated equipment for Egypt...