Word: schoolgirlisms
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Each foreign transformation of American pop can be a small anthropological revelation. In New Delhi, the imitation McDonald's sell muttonburgers, while at Free Time, a Paris chain, the big beef pattie comes on baguette-shaped buns -- le longburger. A 15-year-old Indian schoolgirl had a hit record called Disco Diwane (Disco Junkies). One time, an adaptation of American pop returned to the U.S. and popped over the top: among the Beatles' raw material was the music of the Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, but the band's worldwide influence was greater than any of their antecedents...
...next two weeks, Katya's mission is to meet American children "and tell them as much as I can about the Soviet Union." Sponsored by the San Francisco-based Children of the Peacemakers, her visit was inspired by a similar 1983 trip to the U.S.S.R. by Maine Schoolgirl Samantha Smith, who died last summer in a plane crash and has become a hero in the Soviet Union. Katya, who has acted in a young people's theater group back home in Moscow, plans to see the Statue of Liberty, Disneyland, NASA's Houston space center, and Ronald McDonald. Though...
...equivalent of cinema's frozen frames, and they give Weintraub's chronicle the sense of a long documentary film, traversing forgotten years and miles. On the surface, all is anecdote and diversion. But there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein addresses a wounded French...
...with Leopold Stokowski. Carol Marcus married William Saroyan and Oona O'Neill discovered lifelong romance with Charlie Chaplin. As this novelistic account makes clear, the three women were as interesting as the men they married. Aram Saroyan, son of the ill-fated Saroyan-Marcus marriage, takes them from their schoolgirl days in pre-World War II Manhattan to 1983. The best scenes are perverse and poignant, like the one between Jackie Coogan, who was a child star in a Chaplin film, and the Little Tramp, who seems befuddled by age. "Charlie," says Oona, "it's Jackie Coogan, 'the kid,' darling...
...Solution. As the Reagans passed picture after picture of wretched inmates and naked corpses, they had trouble holding back their emotions. Proceeding to an 80-ft. gray stone obelisk that towers above the camp's mounded mass graves, Reagan spoke huskily of Bergen-Belsen's dead, who include Dutch Schoolgirl Anne Frank. Then he sounded his uplifting theme: "We are here today to confirm that the horror cannot outlast hope...