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...songs, sounds like "Minnie Mouse on helium." Other detractors suggest that she is almost entirely helium, a gas-filled, lighter-than-air creation of MTV and other sinister media packagers (these doubters have not felt the power of Madonna's personality, which is as forceful and well organized as D-day). That mossy old (41) Rolling Stone Mick Jagger says that her records are characterized by "a central dumbness...
...Square parade was a rousingly patriotic finale to a yearlong pageant of World War II commemorations across Europe, including the D-day ceremonies on France's Normandy beaches last June, a reunion of U.S. and Soviet veterans on the banks of the Elbe River late last month and President Reagan's visit to the German war cemetery at Bitburg. But the Soviet ceremony stood in sharp contrast to the muted V-E day commemorations a day earlier* in Western Europe --and once again highlighted the antipathy that has grown among erstwhile allies. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow...
TIME also received, for the fifth consecutive year, the Olivier Rebbot Award,* presented by Newsweek, for the best photographic reporting from abroad. David Burnett won for TIME stories on the Ethiopian famine and the 40th anniversary of D-day, along with coverage of Jamaica for National Geographic. TIME Picture Editor Arnold H. Drapkin summed up the double win: "Although TIME is not generally thought of as a photo magazine, these awards, year after year, underscore TIME's pre-eminence in the field of photojournalism...
...patriotism came from, there can be no gainsaying its arrival." Then in his remarkable pastiche of a peroration, he quoted country-and-western song lyrics ("Cuz the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away"), recalled the Grenada invasion, the Olympics and his D-day anniversary visit to Normandy and told an anecdote about how the dying Ulysses S. Grant saluted a battle-scarred Union veteran ("as Grant's wife and the doctor wept...
...World War II Resistance, who under the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy organized for Charles de Gaulle the Free French intelligence service, which, among other things, procured German plans for the coastal defenses in Normandy and helped make possible the selection of the Allies' D-day landing sites; of a heart attack; in Guingamp, France. After the war Renault joined, then quit, De Gaulle's political organization, and recounted his adventures in several colorful and popular memoirs...