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...country. Nearly 4 million people signed their names in get-well registers. Although 60% of Japan's 123 million citizens were born after the 1947 constitution stripped the monarchy of divinity, the national vigil demonstrated that the monarchy still meant something more than the chrysanthemum crest on a ceremonial curtain. "The Emperor is the center of Japan's national psyche," said Seisuke Okuno, a 75-year-old Liberal Democratic member of parliament. That sentiment was not restricted to the old or the far right. The Japanese press has depicted a nation united in sorrow over the impending loss...
THIS summer, the Kroks went on a world tour which lasted two months--and brought them behind the Iron Curtain for the first time. The singers say they especially enjoyed singing on the streets of Moscow...
Mike Johnson's eighth and ninth goals of the year in the second quarter, both from outside 10 meters, extended Harvard's lead to 4-1. Marshall's power-play goal with just 42 seconds remaining in the half helped bring the crowd to its feet as the curtain closed at intermission...
...that makes the Soviet army not only less of a bully toward Western Europe but also less of a thug in Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact may be the first alliance in history whose sole operational purpose has been to invade its own member states. Only when the Iron Curtain is lifted will the cold war be truly over...
...museums, independent of each other, that have just opened with similar names and within five days of each other but 3,500 miles apart. The American Museum of the Moving Image, in New York City, and London's Museum of the Moving Image, on which Prince Charles raised the curtain last week, are as informal and user friendly as their acronymic nicknames, AMMI and MOMI. Splendidly begauded in perky colors, stocked with playful film fetishes and interactive exhibits that look like video games, the new museums are not mausoleums of modern art. They are more like theme parks, urban Disney...