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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes, award-winning European films prove unappealing to a North-American audience. It often appears as if the judges at Cannes think that complexity and unusualness demonstrate great meaning and importance. When Father was Away on Business is clearly not a film of this genre. It is that rare film that can combine great meaning with simplicity and richness, without the stench of Hollywood commercialism...
Sacher Torte, Earl Grey and Bud Yorkin--what a combination. How many times does one have the opportunity to munch rare German delicacies with the man responsible for bringing Archie Bunker and the Meathead to life and for giving the inimitable Florence countless opportunities to berrate the long-suffering George on The Jeffersons? All this from a man who has, as the tea makes eminently clear, impeccable table manners as well...
Fidel and Religion offers some rare glimpses into the Cuban leader's youth. He was raised in Oriente province, a region that had no resident priests, but his childhood home was full of religious objects. His mother was a "fervent Christian" who prayed daily and lit candles to the Virgin Mary and the saints. His father, a well-to-do farmer, had no time for religion. Castro was not baptized until he was five or six, but all his education until university was in Roman Catholic schools. "If someone were to ask, 'When did you have a religious conviction...
When Edgar Bronfman, chairman of the Seagram Co., flew to Moscow in September as president of the World Jewish Congress (W.J.C.), he was allowed to travel in his private jet, a relatively rare privilege for a Western visitor. At Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, he was received cordially by Kremlin officials. Bronfman's stated objective was to ask the Soviets to lift emigration restrictions for Jews who want to leave the Soviet Union and to allow religious freedom for Jews who wish to remain. Earlier this month Bronfman made another visit to Moscow, and last week sources familiar with the talks...
...handful of men and women who have succeeded for more than a few seasons in the total-risk business of high fashion are a caste apart. Surely the most richly rewarded artisans in the world, they are natural celebrities and dictators of taste and fads. Rare indeed is the designer who is not surefire copy for the press. So it comes as something of a surprise that Caroline Rennolds Milbank's Couture fills a real need. Very little of substance has been written about couturiers. Most of the best commentary on their work is squirreled away in novels: Proust...