Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...church asked for more "space" in Cuban society, the chance to play a larger role within the traditional Catholic concerns of education, charity, public worship. The dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall crushed all that, eliminating any interest Castro had in rapprochement with the church. He needed every ounce of his strength and ingenuity to protect the revolution. The Catholic Church lost much in that period too. The young fled the island in record numbers, seeking salvation in the American Dream. Priests had no resources to provide the charitable aid people desperately needed; Cubans were too busy scrounging for necessities...
...public life and in her writing, but the resolution of her nation's great issue hasn't cooled her intellectual fires. With her son, documentary filmmaker Hugo Cassirer, she's currently working on a film that will contrast the recent histories of two long-divided but now reunified cities, Berlin and Johannesburg. Referring to the project, Gordimer may as well be speaking of her own experience with the Nobel: "We've become fascinated by what happens after the initial euphoria, and how you deal with daily life...
...worry. Carlos is likely to spend the rest of his prison-bound life being convicted of other, deadlier crimes: The bombing of Berlin's French cultural center, and the 1975 kidnapping of 11 OPEC cabinet ministers in Vienna, to name just two. So, as nostalgic revolutionaries everywhere will be pleased to know, this is not the last we have seen of the Jackal's courtroom swagger...
...worse than Kennedy's private infidelities was his public policy. He failed to support fully the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and allowed Fidel Castro to establish a beachhead for communism in the western hemisphere. Kennedy did not act effectively when the Berlin Wall was erected, profoundly affecting the NATO alliance, and he increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The consequences of his misguided policies plagued the U.S. long after his brief, disastrous presidency. RICHARD BLAUW South Holland...
...would be unfair to suggest that this adaptation of Bent is a total failure--its ambitiousness and intrinsically powerful subject matter aside, there are a number of marvelous moments in the film. The opening sequence, which captures the sensual decadence of a gay Berlin cabaret of the 1930s, is almost worth the admission price by itself. Titillating and visually gorgeous, it's heightened by an unexpected cameo: Mick Jagger, startlingly in his element as nightclub owner Greta (a.k.a. George), performs a throaty torch song in full drag whilst suspended on a platform from the ceiling, in a menacingly campy turn...