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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italy another Gone With the Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that...
...sometimes violent fashion, hacking up furniture, setting fires, assaulting family members. All eventually required psychiatric care, costing up to $20,000 a month. Though the parents' case -- in which they are asking the state for further information about their children and assistance in caring for them -- has not yet gone to trial, the ! state has already enacted a law requiring agencies to provide full records to would-be adoptive parents...
...Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with the occupiers gone and no political settlement in sight, the country is girding for further bloodshed. Most chilling is the possibility of the return of the Khmer Rouge, a force of some 25,000 guerrillas who now dismiss as "mistakes" the genocidal practices that provoked the Vietnamese to chase them from power...
...major hits such as Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid and When Harry Met Sally . . ., Columbia's movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams have come and gone since CEO David Begelman was forced out in 1978 amid a financing scandal. Coca-Cola, which bought the studio in 1982 and still controls 49% of its stock, fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during which he accomplished little...
...made them do so by changing the rules of entry.) He studied under a rather dry, decorous artist named Francisco Pacheco, whose daughter he married. He made two trips to Rome, both financed by the King, who had some difficulty getting him back -- the first time because Velazquez had gone into an ecstasy of discovery (Rome, in 1630, was the world's capital of contemporary as well as ancient art, and the young artist was absorbing the lessons of Caravaggio, Poussin and Guido Reni), and the second time because Velazquez, now in his 50s, was basking in his European reputation...