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...most decisive influence on him at the time was Eero Saarinen, son of the eminent Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen. The young Saarinen had just opened his independent practice in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Roche and Dinkeloo, an architect who was a genius at structural engineering, joined the firm at about the same time...
...soft sell. It gets by with the hoariest cliches of Hollywood romances by understating them, and by distracting the audience with small matters like a revolutionary war. This is an epic without scope: intelligent, ironic, and ultimately unambitious, despite the $30-million price tag and a nation of Finnish extras. And it perfectly reflects the interests and temperament of its director, co-scenarist and star, Warren Beatty...
Then there's the song which seems to have been translated from the English into Hawaiian and back into English by someone who speaks only Finnish. Suffice it to say that these are the key ingredients in this version of the "Twelve Days of Christmas...
...undercurrent of Russophobia runs through the country. Says a Finnish grandmother whose husband died fighting against the Russians: "I can't help thinking of them as enemies." Businessmen frequently complain that they cannot find enough Russian-speaking employees to meet their needs. Says Pentti Somerto, managing director of the Finnish Employers' Confederation: "Young people feel it is not patriotic to learn Russian." By contrast, 92% of Finns study English as a second language. Helsinki is shamelessly Western, a triumph of capitalistic materialism, replete with Cartier jewelry and Sassoon-trained hairstylists...
Ambivalence about Soviet patronage is a permeating fact of Finnish life, one that is not likely to change soon. Nor will the country's relationship with the Soviets, no matter who is elected President in January. As one Western diplomatic observer puts it, "Kekkonen anticipated Soviet objections for so long, it became a habit." The habit is one the Finns show little inclination of wanting-or daring-to break...