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...might seem outdated to some moviegoers, but more will find it winnning. Admittedly, it is not as politically conscious as it could be. But all Marxist criticism aside, Metropolitan is a lovely, indefensibly aesthetic film that makes fair and engrossing statements about a dying American aristocracy, and those who mourn...
...served as a surrogate cold war. While the battles on the playing fields took place between individual performers or teams, the organizations that financed athletes and the crowds that cheered them on tended to trumpet each victory as a triumph for an entire economic and political system and to mourn any defeat as a boon to an iniquitous empire. Sports officials on both sides exploited the conflict to raise funds. The political overtones helped motivate athletes. Says swimmer Rowdy Gaines, who won three Olympic gold medals: "I always found it helpful to have the Soviets around so I could psych...
...week's end, however, Bush insisted that he was "not afraid of a nomination fight." And no matter whom he selects, he may get just that. Conservative expectations are running high. Liberals, consumed by foreboding, are gearing up for a battle even as they mourn the departure of one of their champions...
April 15, 1989: Former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang dies. Students take to the streets initially to mourn his death, but protesters soon begin to demand democratic reforms from Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Hu had resigned his office in 1987 after student protests...
Montparnasse was quite dead after World War II, but it enjoyed a modest revival in the '70s and '80s, when restaurantification became the new fad (and source of higher profits). Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able...