Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the world is ready to adjudge America as an excessively violent country in which brutal, irrational force can erupt any minute on a massive scale. This view is reinforced by the sheer driving energy of the U.S. It seems confirmed by the American folklore of violence-the Western and the gangster saga-which audiences all over the world worship as epic entertainment and as a safe refuge for dreams of lawless freedom. In a very different way, the view of America the Violent is also reinforced by the Vietnamese war, in which critics both at home and abroad...
...Western European companies in search of new markets spread their operations across every continent, their craving for capital has drawn the free world's great banks after them. Not content with setting up ordinary foreign branches (U.S. banks alone now operate 244) and buying into existing banks in other countries, Western bankers have lately swung toward the creation of entirely new multinational banks. In one of the most ambitious ventures of its kind yet, five banks from four nations this week will open a jointly owned bank in London's prestigious Threadneedle Street...
...have caused both Britain and the U.S. to check the outflow of money. By devising new organizations to operate with Eurodollars, the bankers have promoted healthy-and presumably profitable-competition among themselves. By making more credit available to private companies, they will also foster the growth of competition-minded Western businesses all over the world...
...Dollars More. The first big-league Italian-made western, A Fistful of Dollars (TIME, Feb. 10), was a production as synthetic as its scenery. Its sole distinction was that it introduced Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name. Now The Man is back, again played by Eastwood, but this time he comes equipped with a better plot, some real outdoor landscape, and a cast that looks even meaner than he does. As before, acting is forbidden; histrionics are kept to a contest of who can give his lip the tightest curl and who can give his eyes the narrowest...
...summer. He and Van Cleef scarcely look at their victims before knocking them oft, never waste a shot, and never utter a sentence when a grunt will do-which gives the picture, despite moments of serious relief, the feverish aura of madcap comedy. For those who like an elemental western with galvanic gestures, a twanging score full of jew's-harps and choral chanting, and a lofty disdain for sense and authenticity, the film will be ideal...