Word: switzerland
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Bysshe (Christopher Shea) and Byron (Jonathan Rigby) meet for the first time in the summer of 1816. Emigres to Switzerland, they seek an escape from "the turgid cesspool" of England. Still a young idealist, Bysshe is slightly in awe of the older, cynical Lord Byron, already world-weary at the age of 28. Bysshe believes he can transform the world with words. But his growing disillusionment with this possibility torments...
Filmed in Vietnam, Malaysia, Switzerland and France, covering 155 minutes of screen time and 30 years of convulsive history, Indochine sprawls and enthralls. It has the breadth and intelligence of the David Lean epics from whose plots it borrows: the juggling of passion and politics in Doctor Zhivago, the muddle of racial emotions in A Passage to India, the grandiose failure of colonial outsiders in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. But Indochine's vision is essentially feminine; its ample grief is that of a mother mourning her lost children in a land shifting and receding...
...treaty calling for political and monetary union by 1999 was off course. That much had been amply certified, first by Denmark's rejection, then by severe strains in an interim currency mechanism, by a festering budget crisis and finally, less than a week earlier, by a referendum in nonmember Switzerland that came down against experimenting even with a customs affiliation. The question facing the Edinburgh summit, said host John Major, was whether the Twelve could overcome "very real difficulties" to preserving Maastricht...
...Russia is not Switzerland, a small country where public referendums have a long tradition. Such calls to let the people make decisions directly ^ illustrate the troubles that democratic forces have had in moving Russia toward the kind of multiparty system that is at the heart of Western-style representative democracy. The collapse of the Communist Party created a vacuum that none of the multitudinous new movements and parties has been able to fill. Many of the fledgling parties are identified with the personalities that lead them rather than any real programs to meet the needs of Russia's emerging society...
...winner will be Europe. At the opening of the 21st century, the European Community will comprise an integrated market of 20 countries, newly including such advanced economies as Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Austria. By the middle of the century, it will have added the Czech republic, Hungary and Poland, and its members' population will total more than 400 million. By then, Ukraine, Russia and most of the rest of Eastern Europe will have achieved associate membership in the Community...