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...parliament. It was the grass-roots devotion of union activists and the faction's supporters that earned him his surprise win last week. Peretz promises a more conciliatory approach to the Palestinians than Sharon's. Opponents lampooned him during the campaign, saying it was impossible to imagine the roughhewn Peretz meeting with President Bush to discuss the peace process. But Peretz told TIME that he'll cut out the middleman and talk directly to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
DIED. CHARLES BRONSON, 81, roughhewn Hollywood B actor turned international movie hero; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky (a name he worked under until he changed it during the communist-hunting McCarthy era), he brought his low-key macho swagger to such '50s films as Machine-Gun Kelly before becoming a sensation in Europe as the co-star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape...
...answer is simple: she loves the guy. I tend to believe her; others will be more cynical. I believe her because of the way she describes her husband's hands and his shimmering intelligence and also because of the way she describes her parents--who are nearly as roughhewn as Bill's notoriously trashy family but far more proper and upwardly mobile. She arrives at Wellesley a country mouse, daunted by her wealthy, sophisticated Eastern classmates--they read the New York Times!--and she almost quits after a month. She attends the 1968 Republican Convention as a Rockefeller volunteer...
...flourish is more up in the air than Beuys' sculpture. Mass MoCA has to survive on a wee budget and attract more than seasonal tourists to the area. All this without a titanium-covered building or a huge permanent collection to marvel at. But the combination of this sprawling, roughhewn relic of an era of America's past bristling with the newest in every type of art form is something almost equally worth seeing...
This talking-it-out technique has been the wellspring of South Africa's liveliest theatrical movement of recent years, the roughhewn, hortatory "township plays" created largely by young black amateurs, including the international hits Sarafina! and Asinamali! But it is quite a departure for Fugard, normally a believer in elite craftsmanship despite the egalitarian sentiments of his work. He has collaborated only once before, developing Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island with professional black actors Winston Ntshona and John Kani, who jointly won a 1975 Tony Award for their performances in the two shows...