Word: europa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lift pass to Blue Hills resort, a certificate to Boston dance club Europa and a basket from Condom World will be the items up for grabs in tomorrow's Dutch Auction at Leverett House...
...propelling him into the White House eight years later. This was Eisenhower's invasion, the one he had planned and argued for and believed in wholeheartedly. He meant every word of the order of the day he addressed to the servicemen he was sending into Hitler's Festung Europa: "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months...
...Holocaust is such an event. It is a topic -- the systematic destruction of European Jewry under Nazism -- that American movies have taken up gingerly, and only occasionally. It has been left mostly to the documentarians and to Europeans like Agnieszka Holland, who made the devastating Europa, Europa. But these are art-house films with small audiences...
Gabay compensates for Harvard's apparent social deficiencies by shedding his government concentrator-council president-nice guy from Quincy image and hitting the Boston club scene a few nights a month. "I like Avalon and Venus," he says. "Sometimes, once in a while, we'll try Europa...
Holland does not cloak that riddle as well as she might, and her variation on the Martin Guerre (or Sommersby) theme is predictable. But as she showed in last year's Europa, Europa, she also has a way of administering jolts from the blue that usefully subvert our narrative and moral expectations. The value of this bleak film, which says that the family, like any other institution, requires agreed-upon fictions to sustain itself, derives from that talent...