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...Buchenwald in 1938 and was released only after the four-member family, including Sister Stephanie, agreed to leave the country. They booked passage to Shanghai. In his teens, Blumenthal became a streetwise Shanghai kid, but when the Japanese occupied the city, he and his family were herded into a compound, where inmates suffered disease and starvation. Blumenthal emerged from the confinement with a voracious appetite to make his way in the world...
Over the years it has gradually become the mark of the philistine to search for the meaning of a Pinter play. Presumably one may compound the charge of philistinism by suggesting that No Man's Land is substantially meaningless. This does not prevent it from being eruptively funny, elegiacally melancholy and wonderfully literate...
...sideline remains unclear, but Scandinavian officials have been closely watching their business dealings for about five months. In Norway, neighbors of the neat brick North Korean embassy in Oslo's West End had long been puzzled by the constant movement of cars in and out of the compound and by the sight of mission staffers struggling in the backyard with huge mysterious boxes. In Denmark, customs officials got suspicious last month when the North Koreans imported 2.5 million duty-free cigarettes, allegedly for the "personal use" of one staffer...
...quality to it, strikes an amusing chord. But when one considers that it is likely that not a single person in the room, save for the French film crew, understands a word of what Amin is saying as he babbles away, much of the humor quickly vanishes. And to compound this weakness in approach, there is also a racist slant in the camera work, reminiscent of the worst excesses of Birth of a Nation, exemplified by Schroeder's decision to focus on one of the ministers as he absentmindedly picks his nose. If Schroeder's point here is to demonstrate...
...what some of the American guards call Checkpoint Three. It is located at the southern end of the Bridge of No Return, over which North and South Korean prisoners were exchanged as part of the agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953. Near by stands the bleak compound of Quonset huts and wooden buildings where the LJ.N. and North Korean commands hold their Military Armistice Commission meetings...