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Even as the situation deteriorated, officials in both Lithuania and the West were convinced Gorbachev would not dare intervene militarily. "Things are calm here," said Kazimira Prunskiene, the tough economist whom Landsbergis had named as his Prime Minister. "An invasion would provoke a tremendous crisis. It would be the end of perestroika, and I don't think Gorbachev is prepared for that...
...producers and exhibitors may realize that a substantial audience exists for something more appealing to the human eye and spirit than the sight of a human being hurled through a store-front window or tossed off a penthouse terrace. There might even be a salutary response to films that dare to show people expressing genuine love and respect for one another in more convincing ways than anonymous clutching and thrashing about...
Sibling rivalry, as everyone knows, is a whiny bore. Only brave souls would dare contemplate it as a movie subject. Only clever (and compassionate) ones could bring it off as well as have screenwriter Mike Binder, adapting a tale out of his own family's mythology, and director Joe Roth, keeping the retelling simple but not too sweet. True to its original material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote polished by many spinnings around a family table...
Because of its souring relations with the outlying republics, Moscow is wary of intervening. Given the resentments caused by the army's brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, the central government does not dare ask the agitated Georgians to return Turkish villages to the Meskhetians. Moscow has ordered up a plan for repatriating the Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans, but nothing has been done...
...those who dare not venture Jeschke's "triangular trade route," we would happily offer to drive. Elaine Wong Beth Diamond Wellesley College