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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten and Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film narrated by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval, Masanori Hata's charming parable would earn...
Those lofty words, however, are hardly likely to clear the smog of despondency that has enveloped East Germany. Even before thousands of its most talented young people streamed to the West last week, the part of divided Germany that is still a dictatorship was clouded over with feelings of dejection and frustration -- the result of being held captive by a Stalinist government that refuses to change when the world all around it is changing...
Honecker and his colleagues are well aware that theirs is a rump state, legitimized only by the practice of what they call socialism. Hungary and Poland could dilute their socialism and still remain ethnic and national entities. But such experiments in East Germany, its leaders fear, would simply hasten the swallowing of their state by the larger Federal Republic next door. In the well-noted words of senior Communist Party ideologist Otto Reinhold, "What reason would a capitalist G.D.R. have for existing next to a capitalist Federal Republic? None, naturally...
...Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from such life-shaping factors as family background and IQ? And when do you measure alumni success -- at age 25, when young men and women may still be temporarily riding on the reputation of their colleges, or at 70, when such credentials belong to the distant past...
While many consumers still live in segregated neighborhoods, integrated ads have become the height of hipness. Reason: they have a sophisticated, global- village look. "Advertisers don't want to insult people's intelligence. They are reflecting how the world is," says James Patterson, chief executive of the ad agency J. Walter Thompson USA. If an ad features nothing but a herd of Caucasians, it can appear dated and stiff. The inclusion of a lone minority-group member has a similar effect. Says Ron Anderson, vice chairman of the Bozell ad agency: "Ten or 15 years ago, there was a sense...