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...blasted hopes of Kim, a country maiden turned bar girl turned bride-to- be turned stateless refugee, are a paradigm for all the promises that Western powers made but failed to keep in Vietnam and other colonies. Her yearning is echoed comically and tragically in her sometime pimp, a Eurasian hustler called the Engineer, whose vision of the U.S. is a pathetic pop mishmash of the Statue of Liberty, big white Cadillacs and Fred Astaire, but whose one certainty is that he was born to live the American Dream -- a hope he will never fulfill. The propulsive narrative works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memories of A World on Fire | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...stream of Harvard literary effluvia. One can imagine a future in which every student publishes his own magazine and calls himself editor-in-chief. This builds up the student resume, but also builds up the piles of wastepaper in our nation's already overcrowded landfills. Robert Meybank '94 John Kim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wasted Paper | 4/17/1991 | See Source »

...worldly success, Greene retained the attitudes dictated by his childhood: a dislike for the strong -- hence his increasing postwar opposition to the U.S. -- and a sympathy for the underdog, a category that came to include everyone from Fidel Castro to Kim Philby, a onetime friend and also a British intelligence officer who famously spied for and then defected to the Soviet Union. The last 30 or so years of his life were spent in a modest & apartment in an undistinguished building in Antibes, on the French Mediterranean. Long separated (but never divorced) from his wife, Greene wrote conscientiously some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Life on the World's Edge: Graham Greene (1904-1991) | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...London version but rejects claims that the show has been muted politically. "Half of that," he says, "was scene-change music that was no longer needed because this stage is smaller." But the accusatory Bui Doi number has been toned down, and restaging has softened the starkness of Kim's suicide, placing her child in another room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Exit to the Land of Hope | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...through the air. And, of course, one of the stars threatening to take a few days off in Brazil. Seems she had an urgent need to consult with her psychic. The near unmaking of The Marrying Man and the on-set tiffing between its lead actors, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, made a much read and sermonized-over feature in Premiere magazine. See what happens, said Hollywood, when you give stars too much power as well as too much money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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