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Part of what makes any fiction fun is the inversion of expectations. Kramer, the ruling white, is the team's iconoclast, full of scorn for procedure and authority. He is expedient, intemperate, womanizing and often drunk. Zondi, the oppressed black who for reasons of race earns a modest fraction of...
Baseball certainly isn't known as the national pastime of North Korea. Condemned as a bourgeois indulgence, the sport was banned when the country was established in 1948. So why is a baseball stadium being built as a "gift" to President KIM IL SUNG for his 80th birthday next April...
If some Romantic operas are funny (e.g., Wagner's Die Meistersinger), can some post-Romantic operas be called post-funny? That was the question raised last week by the newest work of Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, 57, a leading European composer who has increasingly been changing the gardes, from avant...
Inside the party, meanwhile, the newest trend is sternly anti-reform. Hard- liners calling themselves the Communist Initiative Movement met in Moscow at the end of June to demand that the "bourgeois leadership" -- meaning Gorbachev & Co. -- be expelled and even brought to trial on charges of "high treason."
Every once in a while, though, an artist refutes this gloomy view. Here it is two artists: the late French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol and the French director Yves Robert, who have collaborated across the generations on two airily magnificent movies, My Father's Glory and My Mother's...