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Only in the midst of his campaign for president of Austria, did Waldheim admit that he knew about Nazi atrocities against Yugoslavian partisans. He claims he did not actively participate in them, but his complicity in these activities and his subsequent deception taint him nonetheless...
Able to walk the fine line between a bland documentary and an overdone "epic saga," Kusturica tells the story of a Sarajevo family's struggle during the consolidation of the Yugoslavian state under Tito. The story is told in part through the eyes of Malik, the son of an aspiring Communist Party officer. Malik's Father's "business trip" (as a forced laborer) begins when a political cartoon appears in the party newspaper. The cartoon shows Karl Marx writing at a desk, with a picture of Tito on the wall behind him. Father--known as Mesa in the film--mentions...
...DISCLAIMER at The Coca-Cola Kid's beginning so emphatically states, this is not really a film about Coke, although the recent confusion of Coke brands makes the choice of corporation ironic. It is only partially a film about American economic imperialism, a statement which Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev can't resist. Mostly, this film is about Americanisms, the facades that we try to present to the outside world, and how these masks are false to ourselves as much as to others...
...majority of the several thousand Russian immigrants, most of them Jewish, who arrive each year. Near the boardwalk, babushkas at a swing set push grandchildren, while over at the M&I International food store, women who spent last summer in Odessa this summer buy kapchonka (dried fish), Yugoslavian black-currant syrup and Borjouri seltzer water direct from Soviet Georgia. El Mundo III in Jackson Heights is one of the city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains, yucca and 10-lb. bags of rice, instant masa from Venezuela or Colombian...
With a name like Yugo 55, it sounds less like a car than a surrealistic foreign film. But Entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin believes the tiny Yugoslavian vehicle, whose name plate reflects its nationality and horsepower, will appeal to frugal American car buyers. Next spring Bricklin will begin importing 35,000 Yugos into the U.S. The four-passenger, front-wheel-drive auto will carry a $3,990 sticker price that will make it the cheapest new car on the U.S. market. Says Bricklin, 45, a New York City businessman who introduced the first Japanese Subaru to the U.S. in 1968 but crashed...