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...from the government-controlled enclave of Bihac had lent hope to the diplomats trying to negotiate an end to the 31- month-old war. After a period of training and refitting with weapons smuggled in from Croatia, a reinvigorated Bosnian army conducted sharp, sustained attacks and was driving the rebel Serbs back from the Bihac area and several towns in central Bosnia. Even Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s very cautious representative in the former Yugoslavia, speculated that the Bosnian Serbs' unexpected losses of territory might push them to return to the negotiating table...
...drearier show, set in a kind of outer-space bus stop, where another imposing commander (Avery Brooks) presides over a melting pot of alien riffraff. The upcoming series, Voyager, aims to return to the exploration theme of the earlier series. Its premise: a Starfleet ship, chasing a band of rebels who oppose a Federation peace treaty, is transported (through a pesky space-time anomaly) to a distant part of the universe. The Starfleet crew and the rebel band must then join forces to find their way back home. The new show also responds to one longtime complaint about the Star...
This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...
Braderman also talks of the ways in which movies define gender roles. When she was growing up, films were divided into "girl movies" ("All about Eve," "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Gone with the Wind," for example), and "boy movies" ("Rebel without a Cause," "The Wild Ones"). She watched these "girl" films for clues as to "who and how to be," in preparation for her future "career as a woman...
...Having condemned his lover to death, the young drifter is forced to resume the life he longed to leave behind. Though the mythical Orpheus "made Hell grant what love did seek," he could not escape the spectre of death. We are allowed the hope, however futile, that Tennessee Williams' rebel musician might...