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LIFE DURING WARTIME. A stern 16th century John Calvin provides a running commentary in Keith Reddin's wacky melodrama-cum-farce about home-security salesmen who double as burglars. At San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse...
...perfect school's-out movie, it offers something everyone seems to be looking for these days: an ideal father figure. He designed Cole's car and is his crew chief. His name -- another misfortune -- is Harry Hogge, and he is played by the redoubtable Robert Duvall. Harry is, naturally, stern but forgiving, all business on the track, a free and playful spirit away from it -- as much a fantasy as Cruise's neostud. But Duvall finds an odd shyness in Harry; he doesn't assert goodness, he just kind of, you know, behaves it. Duvall not only grounds his character...
...unification has aroused quite different concerns. Will a united Germany mean the rebirth of dreaded words like Lebensraum and Drang nach Osten? In short, will a united Germany turn nationalistic, threaten its neighbors and try to dominate Europe? "Today the Germans want to think of the future," says Fritz Stern, Seth Low professor of history at Columbia University, "but their neighbors are thinking of the past...
...Germans are being given a second chance," says Stern. "That is the rarest of gifts, and one can only hope that they will do justice to it. The Germans deserve friends who feel the burden of the past, as so many of them do, but who have compassion for a people who have had so rich and terrifying a history...
...prodigious magazine boom, with titles crammed three deep into every trendy market niche. Some 2,800 new magazines flew off the presses in the past decade, 584 in the past year alone. Foreign media barons opened their wallets wide, and American entrepreneurs -- from Hartz Mountain pet-food magnate Leonard Stern to Frances Lear (ex-wife of TV producer Norman) -- rushed into the circulation game...