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...there is a new kind of sorcery too. Springsteen ends Lucky Town with the eerie spirituality of My Beautiful Reward, which is a unique combination of a Van Morrison religious song and a Native American peyote dream. It's a step into the mystic, a new direction. Springsteen's reborn and running again...
...camera did not like the slow, nearly invisible school figures, and neither did the skaters who, in the 1980s, performed them with declining skill and panache. This year, however, just in time for the Olympics, the sport is reborn with the banishment of the dreaded set patterns. What is left is an effortlessly pleasurable sight for the spectator. Don't know a Lutz from a Salchow? The TV commentators will tell you, or you can ignore the voice-over and just watch graceful young athletes interpret the music in wonderfully tricky ways...
Normality withers in this anthology, only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...
That relationship remains as useful and vital as it was 30 years ago. The trouble is, the French today are no longer in league with West Germany. Their chief partner is now a larger, unified country, raising some worst-case nightmares of an old nemesis reborn. The two times in modern history when Germans ventured to consolidate -- under Bismarck and under Hitler -- France was eclipsed and conquered. Apprehensions today do not envisage anything so dire as a panzer plunge through the Ardennes, but many French wince at the prospect of an expanded Federal Republic overmastering them with its money, industry...
...mighty have fallen. In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self. With a peak membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against...