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Hanoi's calculated effort to get rid of the ethnic Chinese has been denounced throughout the civilized world. "Everybody knows the word that characterizes current Vietnamese policies," editorialized West Germany's prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "That word is holocaust." Said Singapore's Rajaratnam: "The best anti-Communist propaganda now being put forward anywhere in the world emanates from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi. However critical ASEAN countries might be about the many shortcomings within their own societies, they now have even greater cause to be wary of a 'liberation' that causes thousands of people to risk...
Even long after 1955, when Cole Porter wrote those lyrics, the word millionaire evoked images of power and plenty, of sprawling estates, Palm Beach tans, Locust Valley lockjaw accents and exclusivity. But millionaires, like almost everything else, are not what they used to be. A study released last week by U.S. Trust, an old-line Manhattan firm that specializes in handling O.P.M. (other people's money), reports that the nation's millionaire population, helped along by inflation, has in the past decade been growing at an average annual rate of 14%. Today, the company calculates, precisely...
...watched the Brigade being driven back to the sea. Searcy was shocked by the pilot's appearance. Griffin's face was blue. Tears were running down it without restraint. He was so angry and upset that it took a couple of minutes before he could utter a word. 'I hate to see a grown man cry, but I didn't blame him,' Searcy said later. The captain was 'surprised' that some of the pilots didn't take the battle into their own hands and drop bombs against orders."He 'wouldn...
...where it's funny). Or else lots of erotic overtones. (Alien had some, but they're mitigated by the film's frigidity. Prophecy is sexless.) The British can usually make funnier and more stylish horror films, because they're so good about being shocked: "A vampire you say? My word..." Here are a few of the most precious moments in horror history: Ernest Thesiger plying Boris Karloff's Frankenstein monster with brandy and cigars; Carrie telekinetically crucifying her Jesus freak mother; Roy Scheider spooning fish entrails into the sea, prissily calling out to Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss...
Musica Sacra performances have a luminous clarity, not only in the music but in the text. "I'm a word man," says Westenburg, 47. "Very few people can get as excited about a well-phonated vowel or a well-timed consonant as I can." The group's work does not suffer from the chilly immaculateness of many other early-music groups, especially those of the more-authentic-than-thou persuasion...