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...real clincher came last May, when the boys in the Kremlin set out to organize their annual office party in celebration of Karl Marx's birthday. In the hallways of that impressive building on Red Square, secretaries spent their lunch hours gossiping would Andropov or Brezhnev's top assistant Konstantin Chernenko be put in charge of the festivities...
...when Brezhnev called the two rivals into his office to dole out assignments for the celebration of Marx's birthday. Andropov felt reasonably confident. As they sat down. Andropov noticed Chernenko was sweating profousely...
When the older Krapp records his analysis of his reactions to watching his younger self, who is in turn watching and discussing the tapes he made on his 28th birthday, he makes several false starts, "editing himself" on the tape, adding an ongoing self-commentary. Instead of illuminating Krapp's personality, the layers of introspection intentionally wrap the narrator in more and more mystery...
...Ecstasy, 49 years ago, when the heroine's string of pearls burst and scattered to symbolize her surrender to passion. When the same visual genteelness is employed in a modern film, it is a little like getting a set of stereopticon slides instead of a VTR for your birthday; more nostalgic good taste than you really need. The subject now is not mere infidelity but incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores them to moral...
Blumberg and Siebert on the 1981 and 1982 U.S. Dance champion, after only four years together as pair. Blumberg also started young--as a birthday party when she was 11 years old. "I think I kept skating because I inside me it was so nothing I wanted to do," she said. They train is Broadmoor Cola., skating from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. because of high demands on ice time...