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...mere misery that defeated Walesa. Kwasniewski's appeal was more to youth and the future than to the stern stability of the communist past. His movie-star good looks and pleasant manner contrasted with a graying, truculent Walesa, who directed his appeal to a Polish Catholic conservatism that is going out of style. "It's more true that Walesa lost the election than that Kwasniewski won it," says Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of the Sejm's Foreign Affairs Committee...
Walesa behaved rudely toward his opponent, refusing to shake his hand during television debates and referring repeatedly to his service as Minister of Youth Affairs under the communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. "He is a man identified with a gang of thugs," Walesa growled. In a society that values courtly manners, the old electrician's style grated. "He did not realize that democratic power means persuading people," says Geremek...
...launched Brooke Shields). Yet Malle's high-voltage subject matter contrasted with an often reflective style that reached its apex in his second American film Atlantic City (1981), which starred Burt Lancaster as an aging hood playing out the role of dashing outlaw that had eluded him in his youth. His oddest film was 1981's My Dinner with Andre, a 110-minute conversation in which two friends wrestle with transcendent issues and nouvelle cuisine. But Malle called Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)--a memoir of his days at a Catholic school that concealed Jewish children from the Nazis...
...much of the plod-and-pile of the worker ant, he does manage to capture the leaping grasshopper's heart of his subject. He brings to life the young man whose journals are a thicket of exclamation points and who wrote in praise of the "excessive romanticism which is youth and which is the best and purest part of life...
...youth she was an aristocommunist who wore jeans one day and couture the next as she passed out leaflets on street corners and talked the night away in political cafes. All that changed when she was 28 and inherited the family firm. The itch to design and expand into women's clothing began almost at once. She met her husband when she stopped by his leather-goods display at a trade show and pointed out what was wrong with his merchandise. They now have two mischievous little sons ages...