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...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
...protests have so far failed to stir the mass of Italians-and so have the elections. Reason: the average Italian has never had it so good, Italy last year boasted a growth rate of 6%, sec ond only to Japan among industrialized countries. One Italian family in two now has its own car; virtually all have a television set, and often a refrigerator and washing machine to boot. The nationwide impact of television is relentlessly nibbling away at Italian regionalism, making Italians in the south more like Italians in the north, and making both of them hunger for the good...
...Those in Rio Muni want independence, but they also hope to keep the $7,300,000 a year in export subsidies and $670,000 a year in budget support that Spain now provides. "Guineans do not want their independence to resemble a bottle of euphoria," says champagne that Bonifacio Ondó evaporates in Edu, 48, Prime Minister of Spanish Guinea and the man most likely to lead the new nation...
...abortion rooms have raised plenty of eyebrows: "In a culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers warns: "It is easy to be deluded by camp followers. The public is buying a lot of bad copies of truly creative work...
Born. To Winston Spencer Churchill II, 25, BBC commentator, Randolph's son and Sir Winston's grandson; and Minnie d'Erlanger Churchill, 26, daughter of the late BOAC chief: their sec ond child, first daughter; in London...