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...movies the studio was to have released in 1981-not only One From the Heart but also Hammett, German Director Wim Wenders' moody detective drama, and Escape Artist, Caleb Deschanel's saga of a runaway boy-have yet to be seen. The Chase Manhattan Bank, which had lent millions to Coppola, cut off the funding. Staff salaries were met with the help of Paramount Pictures, which bought one of Zoetrope's scripts and offered Coppola a low-interest loan. Paramount also secured the distribution rights to One from the Heart...
...Cambridge historical commission and local residents last week lent their support to Harvard's plan for preserving two old buildings on the site of its proposed $25 million University Place development. Harvard had earlier asked for permission to destroy the "historically significant" structures, located at 134 Mt. Auburn St. and 3 Mt. Auburn Place. Last week's votes of approval leave only one more obstacle facing the commercial housing and office complex--a Corporation vote on the plan, scheduled for Monday. If the Corporation rejects the University Place proposal, the property--now held by Harvard and used as a parking...
...kept before cremation; and behind that, near a patch of sweet potatoes, the crematorium sits in a clearing under a shed, like a doll's chapel. There is no activity there today. But the wat itself is busy with a festival marking the last day of the Buddhist Lent. A monk in yellow sits cross-legged on a table, while children crouched in a circle burn incense. The smoke is supposed to fly to heaven in order to beckon their ancestors to descend and join them...
Poland's failure to pay off its loans could have repercussions on the complex structure of East-West finance. During the past decade, Western banks have lent freely to all Soviet bloc countries. Rumania, for example, has built up $9.4 billion in Western debt, while Hungary has outstanding loans of $7.2 billion. The total East European debt is estimated at about $80 billion...
Marx's emphasis on class conflict provided Lenin with an easy category for identifying his enemies. Also, Marxism was posited on the ideas of a single absolute truth, the predestined victory of the cause, and the fallibility and expendability of the individual. Therefore it lent itself to the suppression of dissenters and vidual. Therefore it lent itself to the suppression of dissenters and the extermination of opponents. Lenin, with his knack for hortatory pungency, reduced the past and future alike to two pronouns and a question mark: "Who-whom?" No verb was necessary. It meant who would prevail over...