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...restaurant and bar by the Miljacka River, Ferid Sultanovic settles his ex-weightlifter's girth at a returning visitor's table and tenders a drink on the house. "There have been many changes, but it is the mentality that counts," he says. "We are an openhearted people, and perhaps the world came to know this from the Olympics. Many years will pass, but I do not think the people will change inside...
...clan on a cocktail napkin. A Northern visitor is worried that he means the Klan. But no, this invitation is to join the Clan Maxwell Society. "We meet four times a year, wear kilts, promote Scottish culture." Another clan member, Kenn, a fourth-generation American with a Pavarotti girth and an approximate voice, whose favorite songs are Old Scot Mother and Tobermory Bay, opens tonight with the song no one else dares sing if he is present: New York, New York...
...opening night, spends most of the play gazing stupidly at his even stupider girlfriend Lorraine (Maggie Topkis): both play their roles with a frighteningly convincing ditziness. Topkins swills beers and chomps on gum picked off the floor as she sends out for pizza to swell her already-ample girth...
...girth and his group are emblematic of all the excesses of emotion and behavior that the gilded age has up to now permitted all of the Gloria N. 's passengers to indulge. In fact, the point Federico Fellini wants to make in the liveliest, funniest and most assured movie he has directed in years is that the time for these absurdities is over. From Sarajevo onward, he is saying, the only follies grand enough to impose themselves on the world's consciousness will be political, and far more menacing than these little cultural lunacies...
With his ample girth, trademark black mustache and a twinkle in his eyes, Raul Ricardo Alfonsin Foulkes seems the quintessential Argentine. Born in the provincial city of Chascomus (pop. 30,000), 78 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, Alfonsin was the oldest of five children. His parents made a comfortable living running a general store founded by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from the Spanish province of Galicia in 1870. His father, Serafin, was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, and that sense of commitment seemed to rub off on his son. Says Alfonsin...