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...repay loans. The troubled nations must boost export sales to raise more money, but that has grown increasingly difficult. One hindrance has been the rise of protectionist sentiment in the industrial world. Another is the falling price of many Third World exports, ranging from coffee to copper and tin. Mexico, which depends on oil for most of its export income, has suffered a 13.5% drop in petroleum sales this year...
...smoldering portrayal of Maggie in the 1957 Paris stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ignited her career as one of France's greatest actresses. She was 29. Now, 28 years later, Jeanne Moreau will star in another Tennessee Williams play, The Night of the Iguana. But this production is American, and she will be performing in English, the first time she has done so onstage. Opening in Baltimore in two weeks and on Broadway in November, the revival does not overawe her. "I don't think very much about what is dangerous or not," says the former...
DIED. Johnny Marks, 75, Tin Pan Alley tunesmith whose Christmas songs include I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (1956), Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (1960) and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (first recorded by Gene Autry in 1949), which went on to become one of the most popular tunes of all time, with 150 million records and 8 million sheet music copies sold worldwide; in New York City...
...precious to be misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments of type and stenciled numbers, snatches from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England...
...call her in and moan and groan. She'd play along and say, "My God, you're burning up. You're staying home today." When I was shooting a war movie and needed our family Jeep for production value, I said, "Mom, could you put on this tin helmet and this army surplus uniform and drive the Jeep through my shot?" And she'd drop everything, climb into the Jeep, race out behind Camelback Mountain and helter-skelter barrel through the shot, hitting the potholes, her blond hair sticking out from under the pith helmet. And I would have...