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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cannes jury did like The Mission. To Tarkovsky's defenders, though, it seemed a demonstration that in Cannes 1986 as in Peru 1755, materialists could still defeat champions of the spirit. Even in the movie business, reality is ever intervening. Throughout the festival, the $6 million ship built for Roman Polanski's Pirates stood gallantly in the Cannes harbor, a toy boat of CinemaScope dimensions. On the day after the festival ended, it was joined by a bigger ship: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America from the Sixth Fleet, fresh from its raid on Libya. The circus has left town...
...sheepmen gathered at dusk outside the meeting hall in Mertzon, Texas. They wore cowboy hats (each hat distinctive, matching the weathered face) and belt buckles the size of a Roman's shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
...most of their 29 married years, Harry and Erica John quietly built a life around their nine children, their devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and their charitable works. Through the De Rance Foundation, which Harry started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world...
...University in Lubbock, and is expected to be in Texas supermarkets in late summer. It has 25% less fat and 36% fewer calories than ordinary beef, although the cholesterol content is not significantly lower. Chianina is a descendant of a breed raised in the Chiana Valley of Italy since Roman times. Cooked as directed, the rather pale meat with slightly yellowish fat was virtually tasteless except for slight acidic overtones. Most successful was the steak, pan-grilled and served very rare. What little fat there was in Chianina cuts had an unpleasant waxy aftertaste that marred roasts and stews...
...aside a few acres of police-protected parkland overlooking the Bay of Naples as a giardino dell'eros, or love garden, where young couples could park their cars and safely enjoy a bit of privacy? But Cardano's suggestion has drawn a storm of protest, especially from the Roman Catholic Church. A Catholic weekly grumbled that it would "legitimize fornication and extramarital adventures." Corrado Cardinal Ursi told a crowd of 2,000 that instead of such "absurdities," the city should be creating playgrounds for children. Cardano, standing his ground, maintained that 84% of his fellow Neapolitans think the love garden...