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...Mandela's remarrying would confirm a curious trend among his country's recent rulers: Octogenarian former president P.W. Botha recently remarried, while the country's last white ruler, F.W. De Klerk, 61, plans to marry his new love once his divorce comes through. Needless to add, South Africa was among the first countries to approve Viagra...
...success by acclamation of the summit, says a senior White House official, "legitimizes the President's leadership on the China issue. We have demonstrated that engagement is a way to get results." Clinton set out, his aides say, to "de-demonize" China. In the process, Clinton did a peerless public relations job for Jiang's authoritarian state, effusively praising his intellect, energy and imagination...
GAME SHOW NETWORK If this fin-de-siecle thing means anything, the game show will soon return in all its glory. And while we're rutted in the suburbanized '90s version of the genre--Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!--this station reminds us of all that game shows can be. The original programming can be stunningly bad (in particular, avoid the "comedy" show Faux Pause), but the repeats are groovy. The best stuff, of course, comes from Chuck Barris. The Gong Show is topped only by the short-lived Three's a Crowd, "the game that determines who knows...
...there is no ghoulish sentiment in the rarefied pleasures afforded by Manoel de Oliveira's luminous film. The Franco-Portuguese Voyage to the Beginning of the World is a fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny. Two histories intertwine: a veteran director, also named Manoel (Mastroianni), goes back to the places of his childhood; and an ancient Portuguese woman (Isabel de Castro) meets the French-born son (Jean-Yves Gautier) of her long-lost brother. The old woman is wary of her Francophone nephew--she keeps asking, "Why doesn't he speak our speech?"--until the nephew...
PARIS: They partied all night in St. Denis, suburban home of the Stade de France. Anywhere between 800,000 and 1.5 million of them partied all night on the Champs-Elysées. Even in far-flung London, ex-pats danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square till dawn. France's surprise 3-0 victory over Brazil in the World Cup final Sunday has prompted what one Parisian daily, France-Soir, called a "tricolor orgasm" -- one that looks set to blend seamlessly into Tuesday's Bastille Day celebrations. Writing in Le Parisien, one journalist even suggested that July...