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...truth about atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve Poland. Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the U.S. Washington A New Legitimacy Needed Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been charged with helping to finance a plot to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the President of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea [Sept. 6]. Nguema's regime is undemocratic, but Thatcher and his wealthy friends did not have any legitimacy to overthrow it. The U.S., however, by deciding unilaterally to topple the bloody and dictatorial regime of Saddam, has provided...
...Held every year on Nov. 5, Bonfire Night nominally commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605-an attempt by English Catholics to blow up the upper house of Parliament and launch a Catholic uprising against the Protestant rule of King James I. These days however, it's simply an excuse for a boisterous get-together by pyromaniacs of every stripe. From midafternoon, Lewes' train station, pubs and narrow streets are mobbed with tens of thousands of visitors from all over England. The noisy, incandescent spectacle begins at sunset. Remember to dress warmly: there...
...Frankels, it seems that their adventure in homebuilding is paying off. On their plot now stands the frame for a majestic 8,000-sq.-ft. Mediterranean. Although they are pouring $1.5 million into construction, when the place is completed early next year, they estimate that it will be worth more than double that amount...
...master of the multilayered, multicharacter narrative, taking a dim but not entirely hopeless view of human nature. This time, though, he is betrayed by a languid style (long, distancing Steadicam takes) and a group of good actors who resolutely refuse to take charge of their characters' destinies or the plot's point. Aside from a couple of energetic performances by Richard Dreyfuss and Daryl Hannah, the actors stand around doing exposition--or, alternatively, miming puzzlement. The largest offender in this regard is Danny Huston, who plays the lead, an investigative reporter turned private eye, and is loxlike in his lack...
...Religions Inc., his satire of Christian commercialism--sound a bit moldy today. But his blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames (quite seriously) the declining quality of entertainment on bossy office secretaries. Hot or cool...