Word: cuba
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...Gustave Flaubert's story A Simple Heart, an old French woman pines for a beloved nephew, a sailor who has disappeared in Cuba. Later she acquires a parrot. Because it comes from the Americas, it reminds her of him. When the parrot dies, she has it stuffed and set in her room among her items of religious veneration. On her deathbed, she has a vision of heaven. The clouds part to reveal an enormous parrot...
Best acceptance speech: Cuba Gooding Jr. gets an A for spontaneity and effort, but JAN SVERAK, director of Kolya from the Czech Republic, made a cuter speech, talking to Oscar as if he were a newly adopted...
...more than 30 years. Since the early 1970s Kabila has waged a haphazard and by several accounts rather incompetent struggle against Mobutu's government from the jungle highlands around Lake Tanganyika. Although Kabila's Marxist-inspired People's Revolutionary Party received support from the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (Che Guevara once spent several months training with them), the obscure group never amounted to more than a nuisance. But the experience did enable Kabila to forge a valuable connection with another African guerrilla bush fighter, Yoweri Museveni, who is now the President of Uganda. That friendship would...
Nominees: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire; William H. Macy, Fargo; Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shine; Edward Norton, Primal Fear; James Woods, Ghosts of Mississippi...
...from 1975 shows questionnaires that Kosuth demanded that his viewers complete before leaving the gallery. The questionnaire asks the viewer to respond not only to the work, which is not shown in the MIT exhibit, but also to contemporary politics, such that one questionnaire mentions U.S. foreign policy with Cuba...