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...damage was relatively light, but the controversies reinforced the perception that Abe was losing influence. Still, his allies insist he will turn things around. "Abe will demonstrate the leadership to push his ideas forward," says Nakagawa, the LDP secretary-general. "This is his time." If he fails, the Abe era may be measured in months, not years-and Japan will lose a valuable opportunity to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead...
...meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman Tel Aviv When They Were in L.A. Canadian turned California dreamer Denny Doherty, a tenor and founding member of the successful but short-lived group the Mamas and the Papas, died last month. Way back in a different era, TIME sized up the folk-pop foursome when the performers were practically still just kids...
Hoberman says this sort of thematic juggling-act is characteristic of Cold War-era films. He cites anti-communist sentiment and the fear of dehumanization at the hands of a totalitarian power as important concerns. “They’re themes that different filmmakers apply themselves to and that different audiences respond to,” Hoberman says...
Hoberman says that to divide Cold War-era films into hard-line, anti-communist propaganda pieces and free thinking anti-McCarthyite films of resistance would be an oversimplification of a complex history. Though he notes that the animated film version of George Orwell’s anti-communist allegory “Animal Farm” was partially funded by the CIA, Hoberman says some studios that produced right-wing Cold War films were just being intelligent...
...beautiful album, but on “To Go Home” the sacrifices made in favor of a new, bigger sound are abundantly clear. Sandwiched between covers that, appropriately, book-end the album, the two Ward originals sound like compulsory nods towards a dead era. The bewilderingly-titled “Cosmopolitan Pap” is quaintly anachronistic enough, and Howe Gelb’s dexterous piano work gives it a foot-tapping honky-tonk vibe. Still, the antebellum imagery and feel of past albums like “End of Amnesia” and “Transfiguration...