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Waving expansively at the snow-topped Caucasus Mountains, Mikhail Gorbachev observed with a grin that he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl were already in the foothills and wanted "to develop our relations further upward." After two days of talks, their cordiality escalated to outright chumminess. They emerged from a resort lodge in sweaters and open-necked shirts to stroll bantering through the fields and flowers of the Russian countryside. At the resort spa of Zheleznovodsk, they jubilantly announced that they had swept aside the last significant obstacles to uniting Germany by the end of the year. Yes, Gorbachev said, a unified...
...ruin of the Everglades between 1880 and 1910, especially by hunters of egret and flamingo plumes and alligator skins, is a likely topic for novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen (Far Tortuga; The Snow Leopard). Matthiessen has made the despoliation of the planet, as well as the ways in which men who work close to nature survive, his main concerns. Lord knows he has done his homework, and he details the destruction repeatedly and with bite. Here is how Bill House, a hardy plume hunter, sees the history of the region: "The Injuns was taking some egrets, trading 'em in with...
...Bruce Willis is a hero less in the tradition of Sylvester Stallone's indestructible Rambo than of Harrison Ford's damageable Indiana Jones. Willis' final victory is much more satisfying after having seen him drag his battered and bleeding body through the snow after suffering major defeats...
...airport. To film it, the entire cast and crew of this summer's Die Hard 2 embarked on a multimillion- dollar odyssey last December that led them to normally snowy Denver and northern Michigan. But relentlessly mild weather in both places forced 20th Century Fox to abandon its costly snow chase and shoot the sequel to the 1988 Bruce Willis thriller on a Los Angeles sound stage. As if that humiliation was not enough, the delays and moving expenses helped push the film's original $40 million budget to as high as $60 million...
...Snow flutters to the ground. Church bells peal. A widowed mother carrying a swaddled child paces despondently, then wheels and, in the accents of old Russia, jeers at the leaders of the new Soviet state: "Liars! Killers! You don't know Christ!" The time is the last day of 1917, and the central object of her rage is V.I. Lenin. His revolution has succeeded, but his nation's economy is failing, its armies are in retreat, its enemies are demanding territory, and its ideology has failed to take hold anywhere beyond the borders of traditional Russia...