Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the upper middle class of French society, portrayed here by Claude Chabrol with harrowing humor, and its overriding principle is that no shock waves are tolerated. Just Before Nightfall, an intelligent and wholly unsparing dark comedy, concerns an advertising executive named Charles (Michel Bouquet) who murders his mistress. Charles discovers-as did Hickey, under rather more intense circumstances in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that what is insupportable is the weight of pardon...
...write about social outcasts with strange, frenetic lifestyles because he wrote frenetically and believed the prevailing middle-class ways of living were becoming out-dated. McPhee writes about things that are generally as sedate as his style--tennis, Scotch whiskey, conservation--and that are diversions, not threats, for the upper-middle class, educated Easterners who make up his audience. His subject matter is often identical with the subject matter of the lush advertisements that surround his New Yorker articles. His articles are peopled with abundant heroes and few villains; his characters are proof that all over the world there...
...Manhattan's elegant Upper East Side, meanwhile, some sixyear-olds joined their mothers and teachers marching in front of the red-doored school. Even at P.S. 6, which is regarded as one of the three or four best schools in the New York City system, classes were overcrowded; last year they grew to 36 students and this year to 40. Said Sally Mendel, a mother on the picket line: "I'm fearful that conditions in the city will continue to force out the middle-class people who can't afford private schools...
Sealed Buildings. Dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and a dark tie, and wearing what appeared to be a black wig, the man raced down the catwalk when Calcaterra shouted at him and disappeared into the maze of rooms, corridors and stairways in the upper part of the auditorium. Calcaterra quickly signaled fellow officers on his walkie-talkie, and the Secret Service joined 70 local security officers in sealing off the buildings. In the all-black Baptist gathering, the white man would have stood out, but the influx of dozens of plainclothes white security men preceding the President...
Meanwhile the civil war in Angola continued without respite last week. The death toll is estimated at more than 4,000. For the moment, at least, the Marxist, Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) seems to have the upper hand. It has tightened its control over key urban areas, including Luanda, chasing out wings of the National Front (F.N.L.A.), a group armed by China but supported by Western business interests as well. The M.P.L.A. has also gained ground in southern Angola, traditionally a base for the moderate UNITA, perhaps the most popular but also the weakest...