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Perhaps it is the high proportion of walking corpses, dressed like extras from Sunset Boulevard, that makes everyone else in the audience look ill, too. The buckets o' blood spilled during a typical opera must be a contributing factor. And I've heard it said that opera is a slow-acting poison to red-blooded Americans. Whatever the reason, to visit the opera is to see an audience and an art form on its last legs...
...Bremen and other cities were forced to reduce their output. West Berlin was the hardest-hit area. For two days pollution alerts were broadcast hourly on local radio and television stations, and some West Berliners looked like surgeons as they wandered along the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, the city's famed boulevard, wearing antismog masks...
...repressive Soviet invaders, Amerika will undoubtedly provide support for conservatives who advocate constant vigilance against the Soviet threat. Indeed, the project was spurred by complaints about ABC's controversial antinuclear drama The Day After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming chief, hired Wrye to develop the idea. Envisioned...
...stormed by the Khmer Rouge, and everything is abruptly swallowed up in the shadow world. As the country descends into anarchy, the 17-year-old narrator becomes a fugitive. Packing up his treasured copies of Animal Farm and Rebecca, he is driven in the family Land Rover through a boulevard of corpses, out into the wasted fields. Suddenly, the children who loved to listen to ghost stories are living them...
...signs of Spain's new international standing are abundant. Along the stately, tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, a boulevard that runs through Madrid's main business district, a rush by foreign banks and other multinational companies to rent or buy scarce office space has helped raise real estate prices 20% over the past year. U.S., European and Japanese businessmen throng Spanish golf courses and savor Madrid's night life...