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...shelved a decade ago, returned to Leningrad last year to finish editing the film. Elem Klimov, a tenacious renegade whose own films (the historical drama Agony, the peasant- revolt parable Farewell) have been censored and suppressed, is the union's first secretary, unlocking vaults and disarming the Goskino octopus. For the first time, a filmmaker runs the country's movie industry. Not only have the insurgents stormed the winter palace, they are sitting pretty...
...married Christine (Susan Sarandon), a haughty socialite for whom Nick still yearns. His price for cooperation? One tete-a-tete with that ambiguous lady. In Shanley's world, it is inevitable that this does not go awfully well. Nick asks her to listen to the wine breathe, serves octopus for the main course and generally comes on too strong. It is also inevitable that a perfect substitute for Christine will soon turn up. And it does, in the form of the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). This is not love as usual; this is the need for sexual revenge...
...first man, say the Eskimos, hatched from a pea pod. The ancient Chinese venerated a giant who burst from a vast egg. Barry Moser's illuminations treat these legends with dignity and delicacy, and go on to show dozens of other prime movers, including a feathered serpent, an octopus and Pandora. As the paintings prove, each figure is not only a people's fantasy but also an illustrator's dream...
Today the Mafia is richer and more powerful than ever on drug-related profits estimated in the billions of dollars. La Piovra, or the Octopus, as the Mob has come to be called, has entwined its tentacles around Italy, frequently choking off the government's power. Vincenzo Parisi, chief of the Italian state police, says the Mafia's clout has made it a force strong enough to form an "anti-state." Domenico Sica, the high commissioner named last summer for the specific task of fighting the Mafia, recently warned a parliamentary commission that organized crime was in "total control...
...group erected a model of an octopus that it uses to symbolize MIT, but did not try to build anything more permanent on the land this time, Stewart said. He said MIT did not try to stop the protest...