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...center of the capital will be closed off so that, in the words of political commentator Sergei Buntman, "vagrants, illegal residents, prostitutes and Muscovites" won't get in the way of the festivities. It's a pointed reminder that for many Europeans, Victory in Europe day is a bittersweet occasion. For some, the official memories are fond. In the French town of Reims, where the Nazis surrendered, there will be three days of concerts, parades and ceremonies, while President Jacques Chirac will honor Allied war veterans in Paris on May 8. In London, pop stars and celebrities will perform...
ENGAGED. Garrison Keillor, 43, beguiling, bittersweet chronicler of U.S. small-town life on radio (A Prairie Home Companion) and in books (Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegon Days) and Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student at Keillor's Minnesota high school, who met him again when she returned in August for a 25th class reunion. The marriage, scheduled for Dec. 29 in Copenhagen, will be the second for both. Keillor had dedicated Lake Wobegon Days to Margaret Moos, his radio producer, with whom he shared a house in St. Paul; she has taken a leave from the show...
...chocolate lovers need not give up on me yet—as I read Mort Rosenblum’s “Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light,” I found myself voluntarily picking up chocolate and eating along...
That was the bittersweet assessment of TIME's European Board of Economists at its meeting in the Swiss banking center of Zurich. Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president of Crdit Suisse, pointed to Western Europe's estimated trade surplus of $25 billion this year, compared with $10 billion a year ago, as evidence that an export boom is propelling most of the growth. Western Europe this year is expected to have a surplus of $30 billion in trade with...
...types of films that the festival tends to favor. He mentioned several elements characteristic of winning Sundance films: “an acoustic guitar playing mournfully,” “actors from every country trying out Southern accents,” “a generically bittersweet rapprochement,” and “a long scene in a car with a lot of talking...