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Executive Vice Presidents: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...
...director Lars von Trier's ambition is that vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist Europe -- Zentropa plays like a hallucinogenic remake of The Third Man. A naive American, Leo (Jean-Marc Barr), walks into a web of political duplicity spun by a desperate provocateuse (Barbara Sukowa), a cynical Allied officer (Eddie Constantine) and lots of supporting sharks and werewolves. And where is Harry Lime, the charming, murderous third man? Everywhere. Everyone has something to prove or hide -- everyone but Leo. Which makes...
WEED AND SEED. Attorney General William Barr and Budget Director Richard Darman have pushed a scheme that would "weed" career criminals out of inner- city neighborhoods through massive sweeps by federal and local lawmen, and would continue to pacify these areas with intensive "community policing." These neighborhoods would then be "seeded" with social programs such as drug treatment, youth recreation and job training. Sixteen cities are set to receive $1 million each under the pilot program this year, and Bush has requested $500 million more in his budget now before Congress...
...KEEP ROOTING FOR AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE. The PBS series is television's only regular outlet for serious, original works of American drama. Too often, however, what you get is windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice...
Cover: Photograph for TIME by John T. Barr -- Gamma Liaison