Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warns a member of the white opposition. But Smith's most recent displays of ruthlessness have sharply reduced the options available to his government. White Rhodesians' insistence on racial segregation and Smith's vacillation and calculatedly divisive tactics in dealing with the ANC have led directly to the increasingly violent challenge to continued minority rule in Rhodesia. Smith's attempts to withstand the economic, military and diplomatic pressure to capitulate have made "consequences too ghastly to contemplate" all the more probable. The sooner Smith capitulates the more likely that the black government following him will be moderate and the more...
...check inflation, get the farms and factories humming again and increase foreign earnings, the painful sacrifice of economic austerity will be required from nearly all Argentines. Not only will this strain the military's popularity, but it might also eventually forge a potentially explosive alliance between the violent left and hard-pressed workers. Yet unless Videla and his colleagues are ready to deal forcefully with Argentina's economic mess and restore public order, they cannot hope to do much better than the hapless former dancer they finally moved off the stage...
Some doubt that the drive toward more crass, kinky and violent porn will soon abate. English Professor Joseph W. Slade believes film makers are desperately searching for new taboos to break. It is a paradoxical and intriguing view. Says he: "They are attempting...
...Hearst, exploited so skillfully while building his communications empire. From the moment that Patty was hauled half naked and screaming from her Berkeley, Calif., apartment, the story became not only increasingly dramatic but increasingly improbable. Could a rich, attractive young woman bearing such a legendary name really join the violent social revolutionaries of the S.L.A.? Could she have been so alienated from society and her parents-"pigs," she called them-that in two months she could change, by some strange metamorphosis, into the revolutionary named Tania? And could she have gone along on the bank raid of her own free...
...villifying her jailers and judges with regal outrage, Lithgow's Mary Stuart dominates the first half of the play, outclassing every male actor in the show. Her controlled brilliance is more than matched, however, by Bartell's flamboyant portrayal of her English counterpart. Harsh, demanding, sometimes petty in her violent jealousies, Bartell's Elizabeth presents a clear dramatic contrast to Lithgow's more refined monarch...