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DIED. FRANZ CARDINAL KONIG, 98, progressive-minded prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; in Vienna. A savvy diplomat fluent in seven languages, K?nig was twice considered a candidate for the papacy. During the 1960s he was at the center of a movement to liberalize church policy, helping to organize the Second Vatican Council, which expanded the influence of the laity and famously absolved the Jews of responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Even after the church turned conservative again, K?nig continued to reach out, becoming the Vatican's point man for Eastern Europe and non-Catholics. "I wanted...
...Hussein came to power. And Pachachi married the daughter of another former Iraqi Premier, Ali Jawdat. The couple met when he was 14 and married before he began studying for his doctorate at Georgetown University. Pachachi became a diplomat, serving as Iraq's ambassador to the U.N. in the 1960s and then as Foreign Minister. Forced into exile when he refused to join the Baath Party, he became an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, where he slowly developed his relatively liberal ideology...
...were the beneficiaries of eight decades of astonishing technological change, and we subconsciously thought it would continue. But a long wave of improvement in everyday life came to an end in the 1970s. Look around your home; you will not see a significant labor-saving device invented since the 1960s. Nothing has happened since then to make feeding the kids, washing their clothes or cleaning the home easier. Think about the time you spend schlepping around; note that New Yorkers travel in the same way and at much the same speed as they did in the 1930s...
DIED. PAUL WINFIELD, 62, actor who brought an imposing demeanor and human-size emotions to roles ranging from Diahann Carroll's boyfriend in the 1960s TV sitcom Julia to Martin Luther King Jr. in the '78 mini-series King; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Raised in L.A.'s Watts section, he turned down a scholarship to Yale to pursue stage acting on the West Coast, where Sidney Poitier gave him his first film break in 1969's The Lost Man. He won an Oscar nomination for his role as a sharecropper father in the '72 film Sounder...
Shimmering with vibrant, romantic color, Wong Kar-wai’s newest film sprinkles solidarity into the vast and anonymous world of 1960s Hong Kong. In stumbling upon love when they expected it the least and needed it the most, two young professionals find each other living in the same apartment building and struggling with the same doubts about their spouses. The inspiration for Lost in Translation, this symphony of detail moves slowly and beautifully through the foundations of longing. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street...