Word: undercutting
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...countries have been tougher on whites than others. Prime examples: Tanzania, which as Tanganyika once had 22,700 whites, now has 17,000. Last year Julius Nyerere's oft-muddled government confiscated 34,000 acres of rich white-owned farmlands merely to assuage African resentments (and perhaps to undercut Communist pressures from within the government). But even at that, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister is a moderate ex-colonial, Derek Bryceson, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last month as a Government Party stalwart. Salaam is as benign and friendly a city as a European could hope to visit...
This is the first of the anti-Ian Fleming films, and if the others are as enjoyable, they may drive James Bond completely out of business. The Ipcress File does not try to outdo Goldfinger, just to undercut it, by slightly changing the rules of the game...
...impassable barrier. Since there is no real plot, one cannot predict what will happen next. The characters are seen so selectively that no conclusions about them can be drawn, let alone a moral. And the sexier scenes, which might arouse at least a biological response, are deliberately undercut: though extraordinarily explicit, the love-making is shown in a series of disjoined extreme close-ups that fade quickly in and out. A huge male hand rubbing a huge female belly for three seconds looks a lot less erotic than it sounds...
...moment retain English as well as 14 southern languages. "We have to find some middle course," he temporized. More than a decade ago, Nehru toyed with the idea of making English the official language (he himself could barely speak Hindi) but dropped the notion when he realized it would undercut his support among the masses...
Money Maneuvers. In a direct maneuver against the U.S., France last week tried to undercut Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's call for an international summit meeting to reform the world's monetary system (TIME, July 16). Said French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing: "The suggested procedure of calling an international conference on this subject does not appear opportune." Though many experts interpreted this politely phrased jab as a flat rejection, the fact was that Giscard d'Estaing said much the same thing that Fowler had said-that considerable negotiating has to be done before...