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...fascistically minded Vladimir Zhirinovsky unexpectedly won 23% of the popular vote in the recent parliamentary elections and became an ominous new power. Zhirinovsky's ascent looked disturbingly similar in some details (anti-Semitism, fanatical nationalism, anger and economic privation among the people) to Hitler's rise in the 1930s. When incoming CIA Director James Woolsey testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last February, he described the realities of the new world order: ''We have slain a large dragon, but we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.'' For years the conflicts...
...section may garner a sigh of relief from the women among us who wear jeans that stretch past their belly buttons in the style of Farrah Fawcett circa “The Burning Bed.” However, the new high-waisted pants hearken back to the androgyny of 1930s glamour, as opposed to the glamour of the Tori Spelling’s hit “Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?” These pants are voluminous when cut correctly, and so this statement is not for the faint of heart. Wear these pants with a simple...
...Spain. Newly published in English, it comes with a map of the many trans-Caucasian journeys recounted, plus a glossary of words imported from Arabic, Hindi, Kyrgyz and Russian: you're in for a long - and enchanting - trip. Kaja, born into the nomadic Tunshan tribe in the late 1930s, can trace her ancestry back to Genghis Khan. She grows up in the warm embrace of family and clan, close to nature though not entirely removed from civilization. "We were tolerant, or perhaps merely eclectic," she says. "You cannot live at the crossroads of the caravans without absorbing...
...Circle Repertory Theater in the late 1970s and early '80s, Daniels was trained to be "part of an ensemble," not stand out from it. He admits he had to be nudged by Woody Allen to "go on, go on, go on"--be bigger, bolder--in the role of the 1930s actor who literally steps off the screen in The Purple Rose of Cairo, and pushed by Jonathan Demme, to go from repressed yuppie to Melanie Griffith's handcuffed boy toy in Something Wild...
...1930s, the adventure begins on one-eyed pirate Barry D’treasure’s cruise liner. With characters like “world-reknowned guru” Eve Angelicist, vocal charmer Sam N. Chantedevening, and sultry oceanographer Amelie Talbitmost strutting the decks, Barry’s ship is a veritable red carpet floating in the Atlantic...