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...declared in a radio interview last month that he favored a "pause" in the pace of reform. Mitterrand disagreed. The President is anxious to placate important supporters within the governing coalition: the Communists, who hold four seats in the 44-member Cabinet, and a group of impatient, occasionally raucous Socialist backbenchers known as "maximalists" because they want a maximum number of campaign promises implemented...
...counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
...heat. This image, and the tender portrait of reconciliation on the posters, is the mushy and affecting core of Warren Beatty's Reds, a movie bereft of political ideology and ultimately uninterested in the Russian Revolution. It's about a rich Harvard boy with big dreams--an armchair socialist--who gets in over his head in a strange land, an artist who tried desperately to be a politician and got himself crucified. And it's about the woman who loves him but cannot save...
...briefly in the dock to be freed on bail. They had good reason to be happy. Despite international anger, the South African government opted to deal lightly, almost casually, with their crime: the hijacking of an Air India jetliner the previous week, after an abortive attempt to overthrow the socialist government of Seychelles...
...Laffitte in Paris. Indeed, the art works by Bernard Buffet and Francis Picabia have been packed away, and out front workmen are getting ready to chisel the famous family name out of the sandstone above the entryway. Reason: the Banque Rothschild is being nationalized by the socialist government of French President François Mitterrand, along with the country's other major banks and holding companies. The Rothschilds, who are stepping out of the bank's management, have demanded that the government operate the institution without the Rothschild name...