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Their already weird lives are disrupted further when a deranged movie buff named Antonio (Antonio Banderas) decides he'd like a shot at domestic bliss with Pablo. Antonio worms his way into the hearts and beds of both siblings, fixes all their appliances and kills one of their friends. Behind this story rages a giddy post-Franco Madrid filled with Almodovar fixtures: quaaludes, pederast priests, disco-dancing children and haunting boleros...
...loved has hummed nonstop through popular culture; it is a dominant theme in music, films, novels, magazines and nearly everything shown on TV. Love is a formidable and thoroughly proved commercial engine; people will buy and do almost anything that promises them a chance at the bliss of romance...
...terms of post-cold-war economic realities. The John Kennedy parallel is inescapable -- how vividly his sporting vitality contrasted with the solemn visages of Harold Macmillan, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. Once again it seems apt to recall William Wordsworth's lines in thrall of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very Heaven...
...Commenting on the October meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Scotland, Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...
...Philadelphia: Bliss, rapture. Four (count them) hours in the Warwick Hotel to indulge in exotic luxuries like taking a shower or sleeping...