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...military detention center. (It's a subject that, because of the Supreme Court ruling, is still likely to be a staple of the questions at his European press conferences this week.) The massive demonstrations that had been predicted in Austria did not materialize, and Bush was tickled when Austrian President Heinz Fischer slathered praise on the U.S., recounting the Marshall Plan's role in rebuilding his country after World War II and calling the poll's results "grotesque...
...Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel - in remarks that the White House immediately flagged to reporters and supporters in an "In Case You Missed It" e-mail alert - showed with convincing specificity that the White House still has a staunch friend in continental Europe. He said the Marshall Plan's lifeline to Austria after World War II "is really a good example to show that America has something to do with freedom, democracy, prosperity, development." He noted he was born in 1945, when Vienna and half of Austria lay in ruins. "Without the participation of America, what fate would have Europe? Where...
...President was accompanied by First Lady Laura Bush on many of his major stops, which included a question-and-answer roundtable with foreign students at the Austrian National Library, which has 8,000 books printed before 1500. When one of the students repeated the chestnut that tough times never last but tough people do, the President provoke laughter by replying, "Do you mind if I use that sometime?" Asked about a typical day at the White House, the First Lady began by saying, "We get up about 5:30 a.m. The President gets up and goes in and gets...
...vignette set in the Métro, as a tourist (Steve Buscemi) learns to his peril not to make eye contact with that mysterious young couple on the opposite platform. Another American in Paris, Sofia Coppola, was given the run of Versailles to film Marie Antoinette, about the Austrian girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics rushing to its defense. Their gallantry was sweet but ill-conceived...
...Based on Antonia Fraser's biography of the Austrian princess who became the bride of Louis XVI, and the last, unlucky Queen of France, Marie Antoinette might have been one of those films that some liked, some didn't. But at the end of the movie's first screening a few critics expressed their displeasure with a smattering of boos, which Variety, the preeminent showbiz trade publication, strangely cited as being "Gallic-accented...