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To maintain calm in the Soviet Union's backyard, while it deals with Washington and Peking, Moscow has been trying to mend a few fences in Eastern Europe. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Belgrade-his first journey to Yugoslavia in five years. The effusive Brezhnev...
But in this air of Adele H.-like romantic seriousness lies this film's tongue-in-cheek genius. How does one squeeze into two hours, Borowczyk must have wondered, a novel (Stefan Zeromski's Dzieje Grzechu) that puts its heroine through so many wringers of wantonness? "Aha," the inspiration must...
The characters of Zelda's later stories remain gently loosened from reality. Gay, "The Original Follies Girl," masquerading in her jewelry, travels from continent to continent, shocking her admirers and searching for "the recherche." Sadly, she dies,
The patriarch's autumn ends, he dies, we the crowd rejoice. Politically, socially, Marquez' ending might seem naive. The bureaucracy that will replace the general will be no better. But the book's politics, like its language or imagery, transcend such judgment. Like the Iliad or the Tain. Autumn is...
Dies Atra. The ancient Romans had a name for days when the world seemed to turn itself upside down. And that's a fairly accurate description of what happened to the conventional wisdom last Saturday, when the Ivy scoreboard overturned the predictions of the Ivy soothsayers in an almost unbelievable...