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...continued a collaboration with Director Martin Scorsese begun on The Last Waltz concert film. He worked on music for Raging Bull, The Color of Money and The King of Comedy, for which he wrote his first song in five years. Called Between Trains, it was a spooky, heart-torn memorial for a Viet Nam vet, a friend who died too soon, and it was also a reminder of how badly Robertson was missed. No one else wrote songs like that...
Since then, however, economic woes and regional strife have gradually torn the country apart. While neighboring Hungary and the Soviet Union are moving slowly ahead, Yugoslavia is stumbling backward. Some 1,000 strikes have flared since Belgrade first froze wages in February. The country is staggering beneath nearly 200% inflation, the highest in Europe, and a 15% unemployment rate that only a few European countries exceed. At the same time, Mikulic is desperately trying to finance $19 billion in hard-currency debt. "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's greatest crisis in almost 40 years," said a Western diplomat long resident...
Sebastian Rice-Edwards plays sensitive young Bill, a boy meandering his way through the rubble and emotional chaos of war-torn London suburbia. A bit of an imp, but lovable nonetheless, Billy is as attached to his shrapnel collection as to his mother. Hope and Glory traces Bill as he grows out of his shyness, and seven-year-old Rice-Edwards captures the spirit of his character...
...Edward Kennedy (D-MA): In Judge Reinhold's America there is no room for handicapped, lesbian chicano construction workers. There's no room for underprivileged Malaysian immigrants with torn rotator cuffs. There's no room for Slavs with corns on their feet. There's no room...
...does Rafi understand why they choose to live in a neighborhood torn by violence that itself makes no sense to him. The irony is that the violence stems from the "domestic colonialism" that Britain imposes on her Blacks, and that Rafi, despite his Indianness, is so fully assimilated into the old British mindset that he cannot see this...