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...idea of women's independence, questioning the bond between parent and child and sexual permissiveness were rather risque themes for Ibsen's original audience. They are not so startling today, but his eternal, humanistic messages, like themes in all great works of art, maintain immediacy over time...
...This is a part of their education their parents have neglected. For the middle generation, seeking economic advantage, especially with a branch of the family that has immigrated to the U.S. and prospered, has preferred to deny history's impact on their lives. It is touching to watch a bond being created between wise age and innocent youth and wonderful to experience the grace of Kurosawa's art as he explores, with a new simplicity, one of his preoccupying themes: man's inability to control, or even think coherently about, the mighty historical forces he so often and carelessly unleashes...
...generation winced at the word feminism, while those who had never supported the idea were blaming it for everything from male impotence to global warming. By the time she sank into the soft leather interior of the car that night at La Guardia, she was insecure as a junk bond, without energy, without hope and without enough self-esteem to resist this inappropriate but eager suitor. "This relationship," she writes, "became a final clue that I was really lost...
Quiet diplomacy is not always handled by colorless bureaucrats. GIANDOMENICO PICCO, the dashing U.N. envoy credited with freeing the hostages, has a certain James Bond quality that has Hollywood panting. Already considering book offers, Picco is now being courted by movie studios eager to portray the glamorous negotiator at work...
...left to win their party's nomination and then right to contest the general election, an ideological zigzag that has alienated many voters. What Clinton seems to understand is that U.S. presidential politics is not two one-act plays but a single play with two acts. "Yeah," says Rich Bond, one of the President's top campaign advisers. "It looks like this guy may actually...