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...Wenceslas Square, where the "velvet revolution" transpired in November 1989. The new McDonald's is in sight of the spot where Jan Palach set himself on fire for Czechoslovak freedom in 1969, the spot where Havel laid flowers in 1989 and was arrested for the deed. Now a deadpan sword swallower resembling Leonid Brezhnev draws a crowd of American children, and punkers with spiked Mohawk haircuts wander the medieval lanes...
...create memory chips 16 times as powerful as any existing today, while Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will work together on flash memory chips, which could one day replace disk drives. Suddenly a major weapon in the U.S.-Japanese trade war looks more like a plowshare than a sword...
...know that if they do this, the free media may extend beyond Spy magazine ((whose current issue features a story about alleged extramarital affairs by Bush)). When you live by the sword, you have to be careful. There is a certain arrogance and relative hypocrisy in all this that's pretty appalling. You know, when I hear them talking about that, what I want to talk about is my life, my family, my record. I'm out here worrying about what's happening to the rest of the country. Why, with the worst economic record in 50 years, would...
...Clinton promises: he won't stoop. "I don't want to get into the same thing they do," he says. But others might, right? Right, says Clinton, alluding to the recent Spy magazine article detailing the President's alleged womanizing. "You know," he says, "when you live by the sword, you have to be careful...
Allen compensates for the grim premise by offering an array of characters as a source of comedy. For example, a sword swallower (Mia Farrow) leaves her clown-lover (John Malkovich) after catching him with the fortune-teller (Madonna). She finds shelter with a bunch of prostitutes (Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin) and winds up getting paid for sex by John Cusack...