Word: tranquillizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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EVEN in the most tranquil of times the antiquated procedures and musty mechanisms of the U.S. Senate are barely able to cope with the basic demands stipulated in the Constitution. Last week, in a chamber filled with the grating emotions and cross purposes of determined men, the legislative machinery flew apart. "The Senate has gone out of control," scoffed a Republican leader from the more orderly House of Representatives. Conceded Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield: "We are having filibusters-and filibusters on filibusters, and filibusters within filibusters...
...eclecticism is more pervasive than in Sgt. Pepper. Each song manages to fuse an intricate variety of styles and instruments into conventional but slightly twisted forms, "Cleo," for example, manages to sound like a peculiarly profound perversion of the Archies, Cale also establishes the complexity of his sinister-yet-tranquil theme of resignation and acceptance through the juxtaposition of seemingly inappropriate artistic elements. In "Fairweather Friend," which seems to be the good-time rocker of the album, he opposes the emotional, driving music with strangely detached, sinister lyrics...
That is a difficult formula to translate into specific action. Eras do not end with the finality of a third-act curtain; they dissolve gradually like a motion-picture fadeout, blending into the next scene. Nixon, like his recent predecessors, dreams of being the architect of a tranquil future for the entire world. Before leaving for Europe, he was again musing about the distinction between ending specific conflicts and achieving really durable peace. Nixon's burden, and the world's, is that the second cannot come without the first, that the passions and ambitions of dozens of countries conflict with...
...long and costly strike. His energetic work habits are reflected in his country's productivity, which has been rising at an annual rate of 11.8%, helping to make Japan the world's fastest-growing industrial power. More and more Western businessmen are beginning to envy the tranquil relationship between Japanese labor and management...
Mile. Helene (Stephane Audran) is the attractive schoolmistress in the placid provincial town. She befriends the local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) at a wedding feast and later presents him with a cigarette lighter. But their tranquil country life is disrupted by a taste of urban terror: a girl's body is found horribly mutilated. Soon another grisly murder is committed; this time Helene discovers the body while on a picnic with her students. Next to the body is a lighter that appears to be Popaul's. Helene finds herself I caught in a maelstrom of dark violence...