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...documentary film about Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe and Irving Kristol, four Jewish men from New York who began their lives as radical activist intellectuals, traces their development from their Trotskyist days at New York's City College to the present. In the movie, Kristol says of his youth, "Like most people with some political consciousness in the '30s, I thought the world was coming to an end." So they fought; they yelled on street corners, they rallied, they discussed the fate of their turbulent world in which Stalin was the successor of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler was threatening...
...clientele of fast-food restaurants largely consists of students, youth and lower income workers--people who generally have little discretionary income and cannot afford fancy meals at the sit-down restaurants that fill the Square. When the fast-food restaurants they would like to visit are barred, these people must give up eating out as often or cut back on other purchases. In this way, the fight over the Square is a typical class struggle: a rich minority suppressing the poor majority...
...escape it all. Kids squeal as they ride high on the Ferris wheel at the Luna Park fun fair, while their parents chat and stroll. At 10 a.m., boats blaring disco music ply the filthy Tigris River; for a few hours, Iraq's youth can try to forget their current misery and fearful future as they rock to the beat...
...Wilflingen, Germany. Junger's controversial early novels extolled German nationalism and totalitarianism and attracted a following among the emerging Nazi Party. He rejected the party, however, and in 1939 wrote a novel critical of a thinly disguised Hitler. In later years he publicly repudiated the bellicosity of his youth...
...fretful blankness to handsome comic effect. But Hurt is the big news here. Dignified and dithery, he makes Giles one of the most charming predators in ages. Like Von Aschenbach in Death in Venice, like Lolita's Humbert Humbert, he is a man of culture finding beauty in youth, in coarseness--in "all that I myself have never been." To Giles, ecstasy comes in small packages. For viewers, this film is one of them...