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...countryside, the rebels woo the peasants by striking at wealthy | landowners. During the recent coffee harvest, the F.M.L.N. decreed that growers should pay their pickers nearly twice the legal minimum wage, which can be less than $2 a day. When some landholders refused to cooperate, armed guerrillas hijacked truckloads of newly harvested beans and redistributed the stolen booty to the pickers. Other landowners who balked at paying a "war tax" to finance the insurgency have been burned...
...many cues from homoerotic cinema, from the fascination with lust and death that animated certain films of Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger, John Waters and R.W. Fassbinder. But Almodovar also looks back in glamour to '50s Hollywood, when Rock Hudson could comfort a dying Jane Wyman in one film, then woo perky Doris Day in another. Thus his pictures are both bleakly comic and defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says. "Law of Desire was about...
...toward complacency, yet they are too small to dent significantly the advantages in men, materiel and geography that the Soviet bloc has over NATO. In addition, by once more dazzling the world with cleverly packaged and repackaged proposals, the self- assured Soviet leader displayed the seductive charms that could woo Western Europe into a neutered neutralism...
...race was a very divisive one, as Kennedy and Atkins tried to woo the other members of the state's delegation in an extensive campaign. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 (D-Mass.) publicly predicted that his nephew would win the seat, but there were also delegates who believed that the spot should go to Atkins because of his seniority. The resulting confusion among the Bay State representatives nearly cost Massachusetts a spot on the committee. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) entered the fray, hoping to sneak into the spot by taking advantage of the split vote...
While many Koreans were touched by Chun's self-humiliation, others were unmoved. Opposition leaders called for further investigation, and radical demonstrators demanding Chun's arrest battled with police. By the weekend President Roh Tae Woo, who has tried to distance himself from his former close friend, called for national forgiveness for Chun. Asked Roh: "When he himself apologized deeply, how can we stone the former President alone on the grounds that there were many mistakes in the past?" But Roh stopped short of granting his predecessor the official pardon Chun had hoped for. Roh's caution probably reflects...