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...political realm that the wave of immigration is likely to have its most profound impact. Already Labor and Likud are vying for the allegiance of the newcomers, and the outcome of their fierce political courtship could be decisive for the Jewish state, determining whether it continues on a collision course with its neighbors and world opinion. Acknowledges Labor party leader Shimon Peres: "Soviet Jews may decide which way the country goes...
...cycle of black experience in this century. Outwardly, little happens in this slice of life in a Pittsburgh luncheonette in 1968, yet the play subtly re-enacts the era's black political dialectic. The finale is pure serendipity: a petty street crime at once appalling and ennobling, pointless and profound...
Worst Thing About Feeling Good Two touchie-kissie-sweetie movies, Ghost and Pretty Woman, won worldwide success. Audiences who had tired of muscling in on the macho antics of Arnold and Sly instead cozied up to a couple of lame femme fantasies with morals no more profound than Shop Till You Drop (Pretty Woman) and Kiss the Corpse (Ghost...
Moreover, Gorbachev and Shevardnadze calculatedly made their country's foreign policy a function of domestic affairs. If Shevardnadze's chilling prediction of an approaching dictatorship comes to pass, it cannot fail to produce profound and ugly changes in the face the U.S.S.R. presents to the outside world...
...tide of regional recession. Felix Rohatyn, the fiscal doctor, says the only hope for New York City, laid low by the collapse of the boom-boom Wall Street economy of the '80s, is to turn it into a tourist attraction keyed to entertainment. But the industry is also undergoing profound change in its essential financial and cultural dynamic: moving toward the European and Asian customer as a major source of revenue while moving away from American network television as the creative and economic magnet. Rambo III earned $55 million at home but $105 million abroad...