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MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI, director of such quintessentially serious European art films as L'Avventura and Blowup, has said he has "things to show rather than things to say." Thus, despite suffering a stroke eight years ago that left him unable to speak, the 83-year-old was able to direct Beyond the Clouds with the help of WIM WENDERS, himself a director of serious European art films. Instead of talking on the set, Antonioni gesticulated and sketched ideas for shots with one hand. Despite lukewarm reviews, the Oscar nominee's first film in 13 years drew standing ovations last week...
...thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House negotiations, averts a partisan blowup in Congress: "Everybody's punting it to the ethics committee, which in the past has taken an interminably long time to reach a conclusion." Democrats on the intelligence panel, he adds, had planned to close ranks if Gingrich had yanked Torricelli himself...
Ironically, the blowup occurred after an amicable 14-year partnership between the Park Service and the King family, which invited the federal agency to assist in administering everything except the Center in 1980. Since then, the site has become the Park Service's third most popular historic attraction (after the Statue of Liberty and Philadelphia's Independence Hall). The visitor center, which Coretta King originally supported, was proposed to alleviate a serious shortage of parking and toilet facilities before the onslaught of 1996 Olympic crowds. The Park Service began construction in November but, the King family claims, failed to include...
...these differences between the 1992 event and today were not the deciding factors in preventing a blowup, leaders from Hillel and the BSA agree...
...violent blowup between Arafat and Hamas...