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Best remebered for Last Tango in Paris, Italian director Bertolucci makes a triumphant return to the screen, this time chronicling the life of China's last emperor, Pu Yi (John Lone). Starting from the emperor's ascension to the throne at the age of three, Bertolucci covers nearly 60 years of Pu Yi's life in a three-hour extravaganza...
...complete the motif, Stone has dedicated Wall Street (as he did Salvador) to his stockbroker father, who died two years ago. The entire film is in fact a ferocious meditation on the dilemma of a son choosing his father. Which one will Bud emulate: the noble failure or the triumphant sleaze...
...best that can be said for it is that it is, in a way, a triumphant synthesis of individualism and collective cooperation. I-95: a sort of Outward Bound for drivers...
...four days statesmen representing the 21 members of the Arab League had argued, cajoled and bargained as they tried to work out their differences in the meeting rooms and corridors of the luxurious Plaza Hotel in Amman. Finally, tired but triumphant, King Hussein of Jordan took the podium at the closing ceremony to proclaim that the 15th summit of the league had produced nothing less than a "new birth" of Arab unity. The Jordanian monarch could be forgiven a bit of rhetorical excess. For while deep divisions in the Arab world remained, Hussein had indeed produced a remarkable and unexpected...
...much, saving too little, not paying the bills, not paying attention to global realities. They have lived on credit cards, while the Japanese and other foreign investors have been buying up their assets. We are not us anymore, they tell themselves, not the nation as it was in the triumphant postwar years, the American Century. They know that they live now in a global economic village in which they must learn to compete and re-earn their grace. As Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt tells his campaign audiences, "Reagan made us feel good. Now we've really got to be good...