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...Emperor Comes Calling...
Sidestepping the political and economic frictions that have abraded U.S.-Japanese relations of late, President Clinton welcomed Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko to the White House -- and to his Administration's first state dinner -- for a day of ceremony focused on goodwill and cooperation...
Amid increasingly strained U.S.-Japanese relations, Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko arrived in Atlanta to begin a 16-day goodwill visit...
With a parade of receptions intended to showcase American cuisine and the Clinton style of entertaining, the President and First Lady are tonight throwing their first official state dinner for Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. The imperial couple arrived in the Green Room, faced a reception in the Yellow Oval Room, then white-tie state dinner in the Rose Garden, and finally an after-dinner coffee in the Blue Room. Substantive issues between the two countries were not on the plate. The monarch's role in Japan is purely ceremonial...
Bertolucci has always been less interested in telling a predictably coherent story than in evoking strong feelings. His political epics (The Conformist, The Last Emperor) are really interior melodramas about small people overwhelmed by sweeping events; his intimate studies of sexual desperation (Last Tango in Paris, The Sheltering Sky) are really about the places -- Paris apartments or the depths of the Sahara -- where troubled people get lost. Little Buddha is a story of quite small people, three modern kids, who rise to great spiritual demands, and of Jesse's parents, who come to terms with truths that are much greater...