Word: rebirth
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...Letter (incidentally, a horrendous title for a movie billed on Paris marquees as Cher Inconnu) won't face up to the question at its center. It ends with Gilles decision to marry Yvette; we can only guess what Louise, whose loneliness sparked the plot and whose carnal rebirth has been its main feature, will do. Perhaps she continues her quest, and perhaps she resigns herself to spinsterhood, but that--and not the conventional peace that Gilles makes with the world--should be the focus of the film...
...since Lévesque's Parti Quebecois first swept to power 4½ years ago had there been such a spontaneous outpouring of French-Canadian nationalism. Coming only eleven months after voters delivered a resounding non in a referendum on the issue of Quebec separatism, the election amounted to political rebirth for Lévesque. It seemed to establish his party's vision of an independent Quebec as a driving force in national as well as provincial politics. Said the victor: "We are no longer an accident of history...
Watching on television, getting the word from a neighbor or a passer-by on the street, listening to radios even at the Inaugural itself, Americans learned of the hostages' release and felt a surge of national relief, a rebirth of confidence and hope, however transitory, that rivaled the first landing on the moon. Here was a pageant awash with symbolism and reality that defined democracy: the orderly transfer of authority to the nation's 40th President. And it coincided with the news Americans had been waiting and praying for these long, agonizing, humiliating months. The 52 were free...
...working to create an economic foundation for the future. This economic rebirth is not accidental. And it has been aided by our policy designed to foster private sector expansion, replacing years of anti-business, no-growth policies and the notion that government can do it better...
Precisely at midnight, Poland's Communist-controlled radio gulped, then sent out over the air waves the combined symbol of the nation's rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral, the former seat of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, was a telling concession from the country's atheist government to the changes that have swept the land in the past four months. As if the Mass were not unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years...