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...Blue Eyes of Yonta' opens the Festival with a mild view of Guinea-Bissau twenty years after the freedom movement's successful revolt against the Portuguese colonial government. Director Flora Gomes focuses on Yonta, a beautiful store clerk, who attracts attention as she walks through her hometown. One young man, Ze, becomes so enamored by her presence that he copies poems which praise 'her blue eyes,'--she has brown eyes--and sends them...
...These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models," says Lieberman. "It's time for a revolt of the revolted...
...This afternoon, NBA players rejected a long-simmering proposal by Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and other all-stars to scrap their players union. (Their agents think they can get better contracts by pursuing an antitrust lawsuit against the league.) "This is a clear repudiation of an agent-orchestrated revolt," says TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf. The losers may challenge the election results with legal roadblocks that could delay the opening of the season. But Wulf doubts the players will risk the enmity of NBA fans: "Basketball players are very intelligent people. They did not want to risk losing their season like...
...individual liberty, is punishing any country that even considers a two-China policy. Hong Kong looks edgily toward June 30, 1997, when the British government will hand its crown colony over to the People's Republic, and back to June 4, 1989, when Deng Xiaoping crushed the Tiananmen Square revolt. Officially, China and Taiwan are enemies, and China and Hong Kong are siblings about to be reunited. Practically speaking, everyone does business with everyone else--especially movie business. Hong Kong films use mainland locations; Taiwanese companies co-produce P.R.C. films; Chinese and Hong Kong actors shuttle from one venue...
When he was elected to Congress last November, George Nethercutt became a national symbol of the Republican revolt -- not only against the Democrats but also against the ancient culture of buying votes and campaign contributions with taxpayer money. A political newcomer, Nethercutt had taken on the towering Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, and turned the Democratic incumbent's traditional advantage -- his ability to deliver everything from federal buildings to highway construction to his district -- into a liability. "Pork comes with a price," Nethercutt reminded voters, one that would be paid by their grandchildren unless all Americans pitched...