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...some ironies, of the life-imitates-art variety, that only fate is shameless enough to stage. In 1975 Fassbinder played the lead role of an upwardly mobile homosexual in his own Fox and His Friends. At film's end he lies dead of an overdose in a Munich subway station, his pockets rifled by street urchins who may grow up, and end up, like Fox. In real life such a death, with its eerily obvious parallels, would be too pat, too sentimental in its pessimism for this icy-eyed film maker. He was obsessed with the morality of social...
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...later, moving with an elan rarely seen in the tentative opening round, Lakhdar Belloumi fired from close range and hit. Said the dejected German goalie, Harald Schumacher: "I'll have a face operation so nobody will recognize me when I go home." If there was no joy in Munich, Algerians danced in the streets of Oran, Algiers and even Paris...
DIED. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 36, prolific, iconoclastic Wunderkind of the new German cinema, who gained international recognition with his 1978 The Marriage of Maria Braun; of undetermined causes (though an overdose of drugs and alcohol is suspected); in Munich. An acerbic leftist and avowed homosexual, he turned out some 40 films in 13 years. "I read something in the paper, or somebody tells me a story, and I know that second: I must make a movie out of it," he once said. Inspired by Brecht and Hollywood soap operas, his often autobiographical scripts dealt with the theme of power...
...Christians a vital condition for peace on earth." John Paul no doubt agrees, and has declared that he wishes union between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches by the year 2000. But the process is agonizingly slow. The meeting of the Orthodox-Catholic joint commission this month in Munich will only be the second such discussion since the Council of Florence in 1439. The always suspicious Church of Greece is wary, and the Russian Orthodox Church would never be able to unite with Rome unless the Kremlin agreed. The prospects for that have hardly been enhanced by a Pontiff...