Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racial origins and conflicting historical aspirations. Traditionally, the Catholic is an Irish Gael, a descendant of a people who predated British domination. The Protestant is a descendant of Scottish immigrants, whose succesful colonization of Ulster was an instrument or that domination. Religion animates the political contentions, gives them their violent intensity, and explains their centuries-old persistence...
...Rumania, officials were temporarily successful in stifling news of an outburst of violent labor unrest in the nation's southwest, but last week letters from strikers describing the disturbances reached the West. Some 35,000 miners from the Jiul River basin, which provides 70% of the country's coal supply, went on strike in early August to protest food shortages, unpaid overtime work and a reduction of pension and sickness benefits. The walkout was by far the largest in Rumania since the Communist takeover...
Through its recording and Universal film subsidiaries, MCA Inc. has produced some of television's more violent programs (Baretta, Kojak), some very slick and successful flicks (The Sting and, above all, Jaws) and a stack of million-selling gold records, by Elton John and Olivia Newton-John among others. But entertainment alone has not satiated MCA's voracious appetite for acquisition. It also has pushed into computer services, retail gift stores, publishing (Putnam) and finance (Colorado's Columbia Savings and Loan). Last week MCA decided that all these things would go better with Coke. It offered...
Indeed Tony's coital bouts with the heroine provide Looking for Mr. Goodbar with its few insightful scenes. When this couple make violent love, we can begin to understand the complex erotic passions that draw Theresa to her self-destructive double life. The rest of the film's brutality-its harsh language, its vicious climactic murder scene-are merely heavyhanded manifestations of Brooks' moral-mongering. The audience, not to mention Diane Keaton and Judith Rossner, deserve greater rewards in exchange for the punishment. - Frank Rich
...bought for the occasion each week. The winner can take aim at any of the ABC announcers, but, says Manager Gerry Brown, "most pick Cosell." Business at the Sweetwater is up fivefold on Mondays. How does Howard react to this deplorable suspension of civility, this disturbing intimation of the violent proclivities of the American citizenry? Says Cosell: "It's beneath me to respond...