Word: hungering
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...people on the streets. So when we Americans make movies with radical points of view, we aim to reach the masses. Make it so they can understand it, we say. Well, what do they understand? Oh, Grapes of Wrath. Salt of the Earth. On the Waterfront, Catch 22, Or, Hunger: U. S. A. Maybe, Newsreel, Sure, it looks like Hollywood. Sure it looks like CBS. But then Hollywood and CBS reach a lot of people...
According to the Minimanual, the urban guerrilla should "be a good walker, be able to stand up against fatigue, hunger and heat, never act impetuously, have unlimited patience, remain calm and cool and, above all, not get discouraged." Marighella recommends that this durable soul get in shape by "hiking, camping, mountain climbing, rowing, fishing and hunting." Additionally, he notes: "It is very important to learn how to drive, pilot a plane, handle a motorboat and have some knowledge of electronic techniques...
...scholars based their appeal on two arguments. First, the United States cannot afford to keep China isolated from the rest of the world. Problems such as the Indochina war, nuclear proliferation and the war against hunger, all require Communist China's participation in the U. N. for effective resolution...
...Prisoners Anything. And no one ever does. What they know they must work out for themselves. There is no Black Panther newspaper in Soledad. For all George Jackson knows he is the only Marxist in America. He must create himself. Just as at this time he practices disciplining his hunger (he goes for weeks eating two slices of bread a day); his need for human companionship (he practices no speaking so that he will be able to bear solitary); his anger, his hope (he has been turned down every year for parole, no matter what his conduct); so also...
Novelist Atwood's quietly awful vision is summed up in a throwaway line. "Hunger is more basic than love," she murmurs in a bizarre aside. "Florence Nightingale was a cannibal." Amid the situation-comedy ordinariness of her life, Marian, the title character of The Edible Woman, suddenly finds herself in a very unfunny predicament. People are trying to eat her up. Her employers feed upon her energy, her fiance feeds upon her sexuality...