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Living well may be the best revenge. But a marvelous movie called Europa, Europa argues that there are times when living any way at all can serve the same purpose. It is based on the true World War II adventures of an adolescent Jew named Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider). His parents send him away from home, hoping that as a free agent living by his wits, he can escape Nazi persecution. Captured first by Russians, then by a company of German soldiers, he becomes an accidental battlefield hero. His reward is a scholarship to an elite Hitler Youth school, where...
...Nationalists to fight on against the Japanese, the growing communist guerrilla forces of Mao Zedong and a clutch of surviving warlords. On the night of July 7, 1937, came the murky events that constituted the long-expected "incident." A Japanese soldier apparently wandered off to relieve himself near the Marco Polo Bridge, outside Beijing. His comrades, who later claimed they feared he had been kidnapped, got into a gunfight with a nearby Chinese Nationalist unit, and the fighting soon spread...
Does Pop still live? Marco Livingstone, who organized the show, believes so. "Pop has lasted," he writes in the catalog, "because of its radical redefinition of the attributes of the work of art . . . In assaulting conventions of taste by subjecting their own sensibility to that of their sources, ((Pop artists)) have in turn modified our own perceptions and created an indelible record of the spirit of our time." It's hard to believe that anyone in 1991 could still speak of "assaulting conventions of taste," since Pop's media-fixated gaze has actually become the main convention of taste...
...dramatic changes in styling and materials have powered American bicycle designers to the head of a global business long dominated by the Italian masters. Says Marco Rocca, owner of a bicycle-importing firm in Turin: "There is an invasion of imported mountain bikes!" French manufacturers sold more than 1 million velo tout terrain bikes last year, up from 1,000 in 1984. Such Japanese firms as Bridgestone and Fuji are ATB top sellers in the U.S. But back home, many Japanese consumers prefer American bikes from Diamond Back, Specialized, GT, Schwinn, Trek and Cannondale. They are also snapping up stylish...
Would a black armband be exempted from official regulations as readily as a yellow ribbon or a flag? So popular is the war effort that the question has not come up yet -- and Marco Lokar did not stay around long enough to raise it. But as people like Lokar and Dunn are finding out, the fewer dissenters there are, the more they need protection...