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Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida. For three elderly gents in a St. Petersburg retirement home, the situation is happily, treacherously reversed: without looking for it, they find the Swimming Pool of Youth in a mansion next door. The place has been rented out to a quartet of folks with the musk of mystery about them. They are, of course, from outer space -- Antarea, to be exact. They have come to retrieve a score of their comrades, stranded during an earlier expedition, who have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast...
...room humor to keep the gross-out brigade from snoring in their seats. But the film alchemizes these elements through its tone of gentle melancholy. For nesting inside Cocoon is a parable about life meeting death -- an affecting mortality play about old people touched or affected by America's youth culture...
...Gerhard, who seemed to have been Pedro's ubiquitous fixer, was, said Austrian Consul-General Otto Heller in Sao Paulo, a fanatic Nazi who brought out a fascist propaganda sheet called Der Reichsbrief (The Reich Letter). By the age of twelve, Gerhard had become a member of the Hitler Youth and later boasted of being a committed Nazi. Nonetheless, in the Austrian town of Graz last week, Gerhard's 26-year- old son Adolf firmly rejected the stories told of his father by the Bosserts and Gitta Stammer. "It's easy to put the blame on my dead father...
...homosexual activist who was murdered in 1978 along with that city's mayor, George Moscone. Housed in space rented from the Washington Square United Methodist Church, it is administered by the city's board of education in conjunction with the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth, a private advocacy group. Board of education officials pointed out last week that Harvey Milk is only one of 38 adjunct school programs in New York. Others serve drug addicts, juvenile delinquents, pregnant teens and assorted troubled children who are unwilling, or unable, to attend general public schools...
...welfare state," mainly in the areas of pensions and health care, rather than institute prudent austerity measures. If he pursues that promise, Greece's economic woes might worsen. Inflation now stands at 18.5%, the highest in Western Europe. Unemployment has more than doubled, to 8%; among Greek youth it is estimated to be around 28%. Foreign investment has dried up, local capital has fled the country, and despite European Community subsidies, Greece's foreign debt has risen to $12.5 billion, from $7.9 billion when Papandreou came to office. Says a Western diplomat: "Greece will have to cope with so many...