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Local people call their country "the Burundi cocktail." Its volatile ethnic mixture seems ready to explode at any time. Rwanda's next-door neighbor to the south is virtually a mirror image of that devastated country, threatened by the same passionate hatreds. As in Rwanda, Burundi's dense population is divided between two tribes, 85% Hutu and 15% Tutsi. As in Rwanda, Belgian colonialization hoisted the status of the Tutsi, who after independence slowly lost power to the majority Hutu. And as in Rwanda, the potential for ethnic violence has risen to the surface in the political vacuum left...
Chabot consulted with seven colleagues, all of whom concurred that Bosscher's prognosis was dismal. Finally, Chabot agreed to help her. On Sept. 28, 1991, he handed Bosscher 20 sleeping pills and a toxic liquid mixture. Along with this deadly cocktail, she swallowed some medicine to prevent nausea. Then she lay down on her bed; a friend, Chabot and another doctor sat by her side. She kissed a portrait of her sons and, while Bach played on a tape recorder, peacefully drifted into death...
...Maine salmon. The 500 fatter cats in the group, who gave at least $10,000 apiece, got the bonus of an invitation to the White House for a reception. But the really big givers, those who wrote checks for between $50,000 and $100,000, gained admission to cozy cocktail parties where Clinton stopped to make small talk before his speech. Last week's presidential-encounter sessions, called An American Celebration, raised an estimated $3.5 million for the Democratic National Committee's (D.N.C.) political activities...
Instead of emphasizing the chase and ending with the fairy tale "happy ever after," Kieslowski extends beyond the "happy ever after" to see what comes in the "after." This explosion of the traditional folk tale may be called post-modern or deconstuctionist by some, but these cocktail conversation words seem too obscure to describe what he is doing here. The subtlety of Kieslowski's plot is where the beauty of this film radiates. The viewer only realizes after the film is over the idiosyncratic nature of the events which have unfolded. They have unfolded simply and smoothly, without crash...
...money in the parking meter next to his Mercedes convertible. She complimented him on the car. He offered her a ride, and off they went to a condo. Recounting his conquest later, he said with a laugh that he got her back to work in time for cocktail hour...