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...that's how depressing it was inside. Good movies, bad ones - and a huge batch of pictures that could be called ambitious mediocrities - all had the tone of apocalyptic despair. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux to a dear, dying scoundrel, featured a jarring clip of a hijacked plane crashing into the World Trade Center...
...found the mass murderers I was looking for, and I have outlived all of them...My work is done." SIMON WIESENTHAL, 94, Nazi hunter, telling an Austrian magazine that he is retiring...
...Commission. Reijo Kemppinen, a spokesman for the Commission, concluded that the result was not quite a "working document" but a "useful working basis." But resentment toward Giscard's high-handed tactics is still rife. "We spent months doing nothing but talking about trivial matters," says Johannes Voggenhuber, an Austrian Member of the European Parliament and a Convention delegate. "He has lost the confidence of the majority of the members and discredited this body." There's no doubt that the Convention's task is real - and urgent. To prevent gridlock, the E.U. must streamline its decision-making processes to accommodate...
...found the mass murderers I was looking for, and I have outlived all of them ... My work is done." SIMON WIESENTHAL, 94, Nazi Hunter, telling an Austrian magazine that he is retiring...
...house the artworks under carefully controlled environmental conditions. When completed, a computerized system will be able to locate and retrieve any of the more than 1.5 million items within 60 seconds. Another impressive feature is a four-story study wing housing restoration workshops and a library. Designed by the Austrian architects Erich Steinmayr and Friedrich Mascher so that it is concealed within the expanse of palace buildings, it leaves Vienna's skyline unchanged. The art collection of the palace's second owner, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, was already famous in his own lifetime, 1738-1822. Albert's grandson, Archduke...