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...about his scheduled meeting with George Bush in New York City this week. Both men know that many Americans want Japan to play a larger role in the Persian Gulf. After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Kaifu's government dithered for nearly a month before offering $1 billion to help finance the multilateral response. "Contemptible tokenism!," harrumphed Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican. The U.S. ambassador in Tokyo, Michael Armacost, was more diplomatic, but just as tough. Two weeks ago, Kaifu raised the figure to $4 billion -- serious money but eminently affordable for a country whose GNP rings up almost...
Lynch made Eraserhead at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, with financial help from his boyhood pal Jack Fisk (a talented production designer) and Fisk's wife, actress Sissy Spacek. Around him the first-time director gathered technicians and players he has used ever since: cinematographer Frederick Elmes, sound-effects ace Alan Splet and, as Eraserhead's high-haired Henry Spencer, actor Jack Nance. "It seemed like we were never going to finish the film," recalls Nance, who plays henpecked Pete Martell in Twin Peaks. "We had to scrap an awful lot, and we failed an awful...
Molotov answered that Albania was far away; it had no common border with the U.S.S.R. There was no way we could help Albania. As for the G.D.R., he threw the question back at us: "Why should we fight with the West over the G.D.R...
...times have changed, I say to myself as I help build a human pyramid on the F&M quad -- one of the many organized games meant to break the ice among the 500 students in the class of 1994. "This is ridiculous," scoffs an athletically built freshman standing to one side of the mayhem. "My parents are spending $20,000 a year for this?" Moments later, he is engrossed in a finger-painting version of charades, his haughty disdain replaced by keen concentration as he tries to make his teammates guess what he is drawing...
...Cartoon Festival in Budapest, they were welcomed by a gracious greeting that Barbara Bush composed for the festival's catalog. "Art and humor are essential in a free society," wrote the President's wife. "It is wonderful to see Americans joining with the new democracies of our world to help educate people with the perspective satiric art can give." To be sure, the festival's artists ridiculed the communist system, but their works might make the First Lady's hair stand on end. Many of them, on display until Oct. 23, are scatological in nature; others are bitterly antireligious. Among...