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...festival of lost children. You couldn't swing a cat-or kick one, as the main character in Kids does-without hitting a movie about troubled teens in heat and on the rampage. Between frantically perfunctory bouts of sexmaking, the rich kids in the Spanish film Stories of the Kronen hang recklessly from a bridge over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside Paris rip off Chinese grocers and face off in grudge matches with the police...
...would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within a year of landing in the New World -- fresh hazards awaited them in America. Among them were streetwise recent immigrants who would rob them of their few remaining shillings or kronen...
...Communist seizure of power, when "they began to take things away from people." Even when he was in school, "they used to close the school down and everybody would have to go out and dig sugar beets or potatoes. Later, when I had a job, I only made eight kronen [$1.12] per hour, and if you wanted a car, it cost 20,000 kronen. And you had to put the money on deposit for maybe three years, and then you might get a car ?but a Russian car, like a Moskvich. It was their country...
Unmoved. "It's absurd!" cried Austrian Ski Federation President Karl Heinz Klee. "Schranz is being sacrificed in a highly unethical manner." Sneered Vienna's Kronen Zeitung: "Amateurs of Brundage's Olympic imagination exist only in the childhood dreams of this bad old man." The old man was unmoved. Said Klee: "Under the circumstances, there is only one road open to us-the road home." After a night of consultations, however, the Austrians decided to compete, ostensibly at the urging of Schranz...
...admit to an occasional musical ray of light," said the Wiener Zeitung. "But essentially the work is dominated by that barrenness which has become a sign of progress but which is in reality a going-astray." Almost as if its critic had been in a different concert hall, the Kronen Zeitung reported that "seldom have the beauties of a score of this century been so visible, seldom has the genius of a master been so worthy of admiration as in the present case...