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Rabin had always been a dedicated servant of the Israeli state. As a soldier, he first gained experience and fame during Israel's fight for independence in the 1940s; he later became the heroic leader of Israel's military successes against its hostile neighbors in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967. But as a politician, Rabin became a staunch advocate of peace with the Palestinian people, eschewing violent conflict...
Another major benefactor, Adolphus Busch of beer and Clydesdale fame, was more interested in his own cultural roots, so he founded the Germanic Museum in 1903 and turned over a large gift of statues, sculptures and plaster-cast architecture samples to the Museums. Now the Center for European Studies, Busch Hall drew some of the most important Germanic art in all of North America when Bauhaus and Expressionist artists seeking refuge brought their private collections...
...arrived off-Broadway after stints in Chicago and Los Angeles. The setting is a bar in Paris. The year is 1904. The chief protagonists are the young Albert Einstein (played by Mark Nelson) and the young Pablo Picasso (Tim Hopper), both of whom stand on the threshold of international fame. The source of the confusion--the reason why Elvis (Gabriel Macht) emerges as a beacon of light--isn't the heady intellectuality of this conjunction of trailblazers but an uncertainty of styles; the play doesn't seem quite sure what style it should...
More obviously explicit, "Last Tango in Paris" by now owes much of its fame to its sex scenes--still somewhat jarring today--despite a notably wrenching performance by Marlon Brando as a dejected, desperate husband. The movie was immediately banned in the home country of the Italian director, Bernardo Bertolucci, for being "obscene, indecent, and catering to the lowest instincts of libido." But because of Brando's talent and, of course, the sex, the film was a world-wide hit, despite one near-rape scene and the subjecting of the female interest (Maria Schneider) to various sexual whims...
...Simpson wants his Calvin Klein underwear back. He also wants the garage door opener, golf shoes and other items that police seized from his Ford Bronco. According to documents filed Monday by Simpson attorney Carl Douglas, the former football star got his passport and Hall of Fame ring back after he was acquitted of murder, but prosecutors have refused to return anything else. Among them: the famous handgun, fake beard and mustache; two cassettes ("Too Funky" and "Frank Sinatra Duets"); various membership cards (Hertz, West Hills Country Club, Blockbuster Video and a "Hooters VIP" card) and $3.93 in change...