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...sideline to making movies, Michael Caine is a prominent restaurateur. But he might have been an expert vintner--for he knows how to wait for good things to ripen. His career, for instance. For nine years he played in British rep theater before getting a meaty film role, in Zulu, at 30; the credit read, "Introducing Michael Caine." He starred in 80 or so movies, good, bad and awful, then in his late 60s hit a gold streak of mature roles and quality films. One of these, The Quiet American, contains his boldest, subtlest work; but the events of Sept...
...sustainable development, that much-discussed but little-understood buzzword of the moment. But at times the main U.N. talkfest, held in the upmarket suburb of Sandton, Africa's richest square mile, was lost in the gaggle of voices and slogans surrounding the conference. At the Ubuntu Village (ubuntu is Zulu for humanity), booths touting the environmental credentials of multinational oil companies stood beside those of tiny green groups. One promoted the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi as environmentally friendly. "Gandhi was green 100 years ago," said a woman behind the counter. Another displayed recyclable oil filters that use an ingenious toilet...
...home. One point on which she and the travel industry might agree is that tourism - particularly the more exclusive "eco" variety - needs national boundaries and distinct cultural identities to delineate the "otherness" that attracts outsiders. Like lions, rhinos and elephants, for example, Kenya's Masai and South Africa's Zulu people are valuable components in "selling" their countries. So both the tourism industry and the locals have an incentive to preserve tradition and authenticity. Ecotourism may be intrusive, eroding societies and ecologies. But giving these assets an economic value may actually enhance their chances of survival. As the "green greed...
...results of that kind of a society is that all the media, all the entertainment, are really separated. I could listen to English radio or Afrikaans radio or Zulu radio, and they didn't cross over. There was no mixing. On Afrikaans radio, all the music you listened to was Afrikaans. And then English music was mostly on the English stations. Though the English claimed to be the sort of liberal people in power, their whole identification had nothing to do with Africa. It was all Europe...
...South African chant "Wimoweh" "Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin) from the German song "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill "My Way" (Frank Sinatra) from the French song "Comme d'habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude François "Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield) from the Italian song "Io Che Non Vivo" by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini...