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Accordingly, this meeting was presented as a sober working session, shorn of the pageantry that enveloped the old superpower summits. There was no state dinner, no glittering receptions, only six-plus hours devoted largely to pie charts and spreadsheets. Canadian newspapers were more witty than accurate in % describing it as an "alms race" -- not when the donors are reluctant to cross the starting line. But Topic A was the vexing and indispensable subject of American and other Western aid to Russia, complete with details of how much, when and for what projects. It might well be dubbed the "First...
...credit harbors serious hopes of energizing his news coverage and style -- and Mr. Repo Man, who simply wants to play in the big time and tell America what it should be. Of the two papers, it is the Post, in the hands of an untried newcomer and shorn of several talented top journalists, that may not survive. That would leave New Yorkers with only one hometown tabloid to thrill them with headlines like GOTHAM BESIEGED BY KILLER COCKROACHES...
...amour in English; for choosing pouty English actress Jane March as the girl; and mostly for rejecting Duras's script in favor of one by Gerard Brach. (Duras then wrote a new version of her story, The North China Lover, in the elliptical, present- tense style of a screenplay.) Shorn of the more explicit scenes, The Lover has arrived here to see whether Americans, whose response to Madonna's latest antics is outrage or ennui, will take a fancy to its statelier steam...
...many catchy, jubilant tunes in one score. Only a handful have mined a literary vein as rich as Damon Runyon's wry stories that transmuted thugs into thinkers and louts into Lochinvars, and elevated their gutter parlance into a courtly elocution, full of flowery phrases scrupulously shorn of contractions. While time has been unkind to many landmark musicals, Guys and Dolls has sustained its glowing reputation despite a clumsy 1955 Hollywood rendition with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra and a trendy, swingy all-black revival on Broadway...
What are the country's myths or shared stories? The land that rode to riches on the backs of sheep has been shorn of many of its farmers and farm markets. The swagman, that mythical figure who roamed the rural vastness at the turn of the century carrying only a rolled-up blanket, a tin mug and a packet of tea, is now but a name for a Melbourne night spot. A society that once boasted aggressive classlessness had 31,000 millionaires by 1990. Some experts are . worried that Australians can no longer develop a common sense of pride. Ivan...