Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...less repressive than it used to be. Although the Tupamaros leaders are still in jail, the number of political prisoners has dropped from 4,000 (in a population of only 2.9 million) to about 1,500, and the use of torture is said to have all but ceased. The question now is how long it will be until Uruguayans get another fair say, like the plebiscite, in their own political future...
...will soon have to go back to the Government's Loan Guarantee Board for perhaps $200 million in federal-backed loans. Chrysler has already borrowed $800 million of the $1.5 billion that Congress agreed last spring to guarantee. Once again, Chrysler's continued existence is seriously in question...
...edges that become bothersome. There can be no question that Writer-Director Oliansky truly loves his subject and wants everybody to know everything he has found out about it. There are enough subsidiary characters with strong, if not subtly shaded personalities to stock a couple of movies, and enough extraneous melodrama to plot a Competition II. Granted, a piano contest in which six high-strung finalists must each play a concerto within a single 24-hour period is likely to be an emotionally taxing occasion, but enough is enough...
...choices for this pantheon are, no doubt, debatable at length. Few would question the selection of a figure like Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first accredited woman doctor in the U.S. But the writers' list includes quite unimportant figures like Vita Sackville-West and Agnes Smedley, while ignoring real heroines of literature like the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. What has caused the real flap, however, is Chicago's relentless concentration on the pudenda...
...brought on her miscarriage and eventual suicide by leaking a story that falsely claimed she was pregnant by a member of the Black Panther Party. In a final note to his publisher, Gary disclaimed any connection between Seberg's death and his own. In answer to the question "Why then?" he cited the title of his autobiographical volume The Night Will Be Peaceful and quoted its last words: "I have finally explained myself fully...