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LUCIOUS photgraphy, outstanding acting and a story that is touching, if overdone, save Bombay from the fate of most of its genre. Instead of being sappy, the film exudes a combination of sadness and joy. Bombay adeptly combines the kind of lost youth that Francois Truffaut immortalized in The 400...
Whatever the motivation, Soviet expansionism was widely seen as a major threat to vital Western interests and world peace. Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union, like Stalin's, would not feel entirely secure until all other nations felt entirely insecure. Predatory or paranoid, the old men in the Kremlin seemed determined...
Philby, born Harold Adrian Russell, was the only son of St. John Philby, a British civil servant who sided with the colonies rather than the empire and became an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Harold was born in India, and in childhood acquired the lasting nickname of...
That profile is familiar too. For Alex is the latest in a long Hollywood line of women whose sexuality makes them both super- and subhuman. Vampires. Or, in Hollywood's word, vamps. Since 1915, when Theda Bara starred in A Fool There Was (based on Rudyard Kipling's poem The...
She also extends her portrait, somewhat misguidedly, to include people who were not orphaned but simply separated from their parents, like Charlie Chaplin or Rudyard Kipling. She even argues that America itself is to some extent an orphaned society because its immigrants, from the Mayflower colonists to the latest Chinese...