Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangerous notions are quickly emerging. First is the insistence of the Likud government on practically re-negotiating the Oslo Accords--an agreement that was signed by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, not on behalf of his Labor Party, but on behalf of the Israeli government. Such de facto renegation of signed treaties projects an image of Israel as a country which lacks credibility. Second is the idea that at the end of the 20th century, territorial claims can be made based on ancient religious texts. Imagine the havoc that would wreck Europe, or for that matter most...
...prevent an agreement from taking effect. But for now, at least, "The threats have to be viewed with enormous skepticism," says TIME's Lisa Beyer. If a negotiated agreement is rejected, "Netanyahu would have to look toward rearranging the government" with a new coalition that could include the dovish Labor Party. "The hardliners would be essentially putting themselves out of business," she said, "and I don't think they're too anxious to do that." However, Beyer notes, "This does reflect that Netanyahu has a serious problem: that his government may be too right-wing to make the concessions necessary...
...life, from the beginning, was hardly boring. Born in Fontana Liri, 50 miles outside Rome, to a carpenter who went blind and a housewife who went deaf ("They were like a comic couple," he said), Mastroianni did time in a German labor camp during World War II, then escaped to Venice and later to Luchino Visconti's famed Milan theater troupe. The screen had to claim this face, so sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly...
...surprising variety of roles over the decades: as the soft-spoken labor leader in The Organizer (1963), the homosexual fighting Fascism in A Special Day (1977), the Chekhovian philanderer in Dark Eyes (1987), the gentle padrone besotted by a dwarf in the Argentine I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993), his finest late role. He worked with ambitious auteurs from Altman to Zurlini; he lent his bankability to obscure projects. In his last year he starred with Chiara in Three Lives and Only One Death, an elaborate jape by the Paris-based Chilean Raul Ruiz, and appeared with...
NOMINATED. ANDREW CUOMO, 39, son of New York's ex-Governor Mario, as Housing Secretary; ALEXIS HERMAN, 49, White House aide, as Labor Secretary; FEDERICO PENA, 49, the Transportation chief, as Energy Secretary; and RODNEY SLATER, 41, Federal Highway Administrator, to replace Pena; by President Clinton; in Washington...