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Wings of Desire (1988). The Berlin Wall -- the one that divides not just East and West, but fantasy and documentary, high art and popular art -- comes crumbling down in Wim Wenders' heartaching fairy tale. See it, concentrate, and be astonished...
...good news is that the Berlin Wall has crumbled, and the cold war seems to be over. That offers the possibility of immense cuts in the $300 billion defense budget and immense investment opportunities in Eastern Europe. The bad news for Americans is that the Pentagon is still clinging to every dollar, and the investors pouring into Eastern Europe are mainly the West Europeans, who are in the process of uniting into an economic superpower...
...transformation had a giddy, hallucinatory quality, its surprises tumbling out night after night. The wall that divided Berlin and sealed an international order crumbled into souvenirs. The cold war, which seemed for so long part of the permanent order of things, was peacefully deconstructing before the world's eyes. After years of numb changelessness, the communist world has come alive with an energy and turmoil that have taken on a bracing, potentially anarchic life of their own. Not even Stalinist Rumania was immune...
...softy, acknowledged back in the 1970s that a Soviet decision to attack American missiles would be a "cosmic roll of the dice." Yet Soviets play chess; they do not shoot craps. Stalin advanced several black pawns and a knight against one of white's most vulnerable squares, West Berlin, in 1948. Nikita Khrushchev tried a similar gambit in 1961, and he was downright reckless over Cuba in 1962. The stupidity as well as the failure of that move contributed to his downfall...
...feuding republics of nonaligned Yugoslavia, Serbia and Slovenia. NATO should be maintained during a period of transition, as long as it is understood to be playing that temporary role. To his credit, and the Administration's, James Baker, in a thoughtful and farsighted speech earlier this month in West Berlin, seemed to be inviting Western statesmen and thinkers to join in the search for new ideas and institutions that will ensure the security of post- cold war Europe...