Word: subject
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME staff member since 1972, White has specialized in stories about the developing nations of the Third World since studying that subject as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard two years ago. After writing about the civil war in Rhodesia and the revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, he found Mexico's relative political stability "a refreshing change." The roots of revolution, he says, have long been there- "high levels of unemployment, explosive population growth and a harshly inequitable distribution of wealth. Yet there hasn't been a revolution in Mexico since 1917. It's hard to figure...
...professional politician: he spoke a language that Nixon understood. As Secretary of Defense, Laird knew his subject thoroughly before he took office. Remaining influential in the Congress, Laird could be ignored by the President only at serious risk. While his maneuvers were often as byzantine as those of Nixon, he accomplished with verve and surprising good will what Nixon performed with grim determination and inward resentment. Laird liked to win, but unlike Nixon, derived no great pleasure from seeing someone else lose. There was about him a buoyancy and a rascally good humor that made working with him as satisfying...
...candidates will speak in the K-School Forum either on the role of the presidency or on their perceptions of the three most critical public policy issues. They will also have a private session with Faculty members on any subject they choose and participate in a round-table discussion on their qualifications for president with local dignitaries and journalists...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tavernier merely dusts off a confusing collection of cliches. Most of the film has an aura of impenetrable mystery overlaid with a veneer of hastily added political significance. The whole production reeks of a talented artist lost in the complexities of a difficult subject. As the film progresses. The subterfuges that Tavernier resorts to become embarrasingly obvious...
...subject attempted would present problems to the most experienced and brilliant of film makers. The Judge and the Assassin traces the last years of one Joseph Bouvier, (Michel Galabru) a dismissed French sergeant turned hobo...