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...South African whites head toward their first general election in six years on May 6, Heyns' warning is clear proof that the fortress of apartheid, which looks so monolithic to the outside world, is showing signs of cracks. It is also an indication that the once united Afrikaners, die volk, the white tribe, who number only 3 million of the country's nearly 35 million* inhabitants but grimly assert their claim to political power, stand united no longer...
...apartheid, are united no more As South Africa' s whites head for their first general election in six years, opponents of the country' s system of racial segregation are standing up. Some members of the once nearly monolithic "white tribe" are looking for change. Even the cradle of the volk, Stellenbosch University, is being swept by an intellectual revolution as professors demand real reform. See WORLD...
Prick Up Your Ears is a view from outside, cool as Orton's craft. But Ken Russell has always been caged inside the beautiful mad creatures he imagines artists to be. No distance, no irony, no coherence, no prisoners. And no surprise that Russell now turns to Gothic, Stephen Volk's script about the famous night in 1816 that Byron (Gabriel Byrne) spent with his mistress Claire Clairmont (Myriam Cyr), his lover John William Polidori (Timothy Spall), his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands) and Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson). From that spectral evening emerged Mary...
...Japan made cars and trucks before World War II, but the prototype that launched the world triumphs of the Japanese auto industry was the American Jeep, a tough, open, naive and compact vehicle that became a common sight in the country after 1945. It was a Volkswagen without a Volk. It showed, as no Buick staff car could, that four wheels and a motor could mean democracy and access. It became a prime motif in the envy of the vanquished for the victors...
They did agree to doctor it a bit. The new script avoids calling Jews Frevlerbrut (a sacrilegious brood) or verblendetes Volk (a deluded people). And when the mob shouts for Barabbas, a few Jews also cry for Jesus' release. Cruelty and vindictiveness are displayed by the loutish Roman soldiery as well as Jews...