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...blossomed in her role with the couple's visit to Europe later in 1961. Her "flawless French," exquisite sense of style and formidable knowledge of French history had both General Charles de Gaulle and his nation at her feet; even Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was smitten. A later, solo trip to India and Pakistan set the stage for Jackie's best performances yet, when she played first the "little girl," terrified of a snake, with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, then the bold horsewoman with Pakistan's leader, Ayub Khan, leaving both men charmed. Back in the U.S., her elegant...
...with shovels and concrete blocks and barbed wire, began to build the Berlin Wall. It was yet another dark development in the crisis-ridden first summer of John Kennedy's Presidency. There had been the Bay of Pigs in April, then the June summit in Vienna where Soviet boss Nikita Khruschev pounded the table in Kennedy's face and declared that partitioned Berlin was "a bone in my throat" he intended to be rid of soon...
...film is that rare bird: a true tricontinental production. Li and his favorite collaborator, action choreographer Corey Yuen, represent Asia; Fonda and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen fly the Stars and Stripes. But the secret ingredient is Luc Besson, the French auteur (Nikita, The Fifth Element) who produced Dragon, wrote the story, set the dark, violent tone, signed French music-video ace Chris Nahon to direct and chose Karyo, the angular menacer who shone in Nikita, to play the spuming villain. The film's other star is Paris. Like any self-respecting thriller set in a famous city, Dragon stages action...
Russia's ego certainly needs boosting. The only resemblance between Putin-Bush and the encounter between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 will be the month--both being June meetings. The Soviet leader who went to Vienna in 1961 presided over a dynamic, aggressively self-confident empire that was at the height of its powers; today Russia's decline is far from over. Putin is a recently retired civil servant...
...Jackie crystallized an emerging notion of modernity for both the elites she moved among: the newly prosperous middle classes and those still striving to move up. In the cultural politics of the cold war world, her elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier...