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...Autumn 1962. Eros hit pay dirt with Bert Stern's 18-page photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe, taken six weeks before her death and published six weeks after it. At 36, she looks lined and tired but engaged in her life's work of showing herself to the camera. Her body behind sheer strips of fabric shows the effects of dieting and gravity. Some of the workprints are X'd out -Monroe's nixing of their publication. It was both ghoulish and poignant to see the sex goddess in this post-mortem expos?, while her name was still...
...that Russia "is the best alternative to the Middle East. If something happens in Saudi Arabia we are powerless. But Russia is cooperative in many cases. Europe has considerable influence on Russia." Ambiguity To an extent, there's some hypocrisy in Western fears about Russia's energy sector. Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies notes, for example, that the national energy companies in France and Italy are also majority state owned, and their chief executives are picked by the government. And regardless of any reluctance, many European countries have signed gas contracts with the Russians that cover...
...courtly Virginia gentleman, but Sen. John Warner, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is playing hardball. The 79-year-old Republican Senator has just ratcheted up the pressure on the Defense Department to come clean on what happened at Haditha. On Tuesday Warner fired off a stern letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before his panel...
...caught fire in the Swede's existential dramas. He wrote searing roles for them; they gave body and soul to his ideas, becoming for a time his muses, often his lovers. Bergman's last, most lasting actress liaison was with the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. Her soft features and stern resolve inspired a string of stern masterworks, starting with 1966's Persona, in which she played a mute actress. Ullmann was no mere Trilby to Bergman's Svengali. She became his eloquent interpreter, later directing two of his screenplays. Saraband (2003), with Bergman again directing and Ullmann starring, marks nearly...
...Washington, President Bill Clinton welcomed the downfall of the dictator the U.S. had backed for most of his reign, but issued a stern warning to Kabila. "The U.S. position is clear," Clinton said. "We want to see a transition to a genuine democracy" in Zaire...