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Even with the fate of the Uruguay Round still up in the air, there are already signs of creeping regionalization in its more exclusive, divisive and competitive form. France and Germany, the dominant powers on the Continent and the principal culprits in the E.C.'s agricultural protectionism, have formed a...
Kravchuk and Yeltsin are scheduled to meet in the near future to try to put aside the acrimony and mistrust of recent months. It was Russia and Ukraine, together with Belarus, that united last December to forge the Commonwealth and bury the Soviet Union. Without the cooperation of Kiev and...
THE BOTTOM LINE: The staid European cinema comes alive with an epic as big and mysterious as the Continent.
Zentropa gives signs that the answer is yes. This existential melodrama was originally known as Europa, and Danish director Lars von Trier's ambition is that vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist...
And what of race? Los Angeles is rapidly becoming a city of multiple ghettos. The blacks are in their place, the whites in theirs. The Vietnamese are here, the Koreans over there, the Japanese in the middle. The Salvadorans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and other Latin Americans may all be Hispanic, but...