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...film that should be an assignment for VES 194. "Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
...Amid the squalor of Ethiopia's rapidly rilling refugee camps, little help appeared to be in sight last week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...
...play. Adler begins rather weakly, coming off as a whining, complaining nuisance. He improves rapidly, however, and by the cathartic third act we must believe that Arnold is indeed very proud of what he is, what he does, and what he wants to do. He doesn't want the squalor of the back room bars; he wants a neat apartment near a park, a nice place where he can build his family. Adler quite successfully reveals Arnold's inner strength, a resolve developed through years of taunts, ridicule, and disapproval, and shows it to us with a candor and sincerity...
...wrong. The process never ends. Its latest form is "Van Gogh in Aries," at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Viewed as a social phenomenon rather than as a group of paintings and drawings, this show epitomizes the Met's leanings to cultural Reaganism: private opulence, public squalor. Weeks of private viewings have led up to its actual public opening, this week. Rarely has the idea of artistic heroism been so conspicuously tied to the ascent of the social mountain. But now all this will change. The general public, one may predict, will see very little. Its members...
...evidence backing up Ortega's claim--repeated in a Harvard appearance last week--that Washington horrible planning a November military invasion of his country. It is clear that Ortega and his cronics are searching for scapegoats to explain away their inability to lift the Nicaraguan peasantry above the squalor in which they were left by the Somoza regime...