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LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST. Greek director Theo Angelopoulos makes majestic visions out of spare images. In this metaphysical road movie, two children hike across Greece to find their absent father. A poignant but never sentimental view of childhood from a master of minimalism...
...then as the man who imposed martial law in 1981 and outlawed the Solidarity trade-union movement, Jaruzelski gazed calmly from the sidelines last year as the revolt against communism gathered steam. He acknowledged Solidarity's election victory in June, and then won, with just a single ballot to spare, a parliamentary vote for a six-year presidential term. "As President, Jaruzelski has done practically everything that was expected of him," says Pawel Ziolek, a spokesman of the Forum of a Democratic Right, a coalition group. "Which means he did nothing to disturb the process of dismantling the system...
...what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...
...Saddam's biggest asset, his 1 million-man military, in danger of fading away. Iraq has stockpiled conventional weapons and spare parts and is continuing to assemble exotic ones -- including missiles and chemical warheads. "Iraq is reasonably well stocked with parts and ammunition, but only until a shooting war breaks out," says a White House official. "Then they're out of everything...
...also "funny": New York is the only city I've ever been in where almost everyone you meet on the street considers himself a comedian -- a fact brought home to me a couple of years ago when a panhandler near my subway stop said to me, "Can you spare some change? I'd like to buy a few junk bonds.") In the matter of contentiousness, I once tried to indicate the difference between New York and the Midwest, where I grew up, by saying that in the Midwest if you approach someone who is operating a retail business...