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...January 1982, however, Vashchenko and her more robust mother Augustina, 53, began a hunger strike. After a month Lidiya, whose weight had dropped to 84 Ibs., became so weak that she agreed to be taken to Moscow's Botkin Hospital and nursed back to health. Two weeks later, she returned to Chernogorsk. There, determined to test the government's promise, she applied to the local authorities for permission to leave...
...Ride for Life, a 10-week transcontinental bike expedition scheduled to begin on June 13 from Seattle, is a student-run project that will donate $250,000 to Oxfam America for its fight against world hunger. The reception yesterday raised funds for the 39 Harvard students' expenses...
...days when Wolfman Meets Frankenstein passed for a cheap thrill. Now the pressures of High Kink can cause such a strain, for example The Hunger, due out in April. In a decidedly against-type bit of casting, Catherine Deneuve, 39, plays a 3,000-year-old bisexual vampire involved in a threesome with Susan Sarandon, 36, and David Bowie, 36. With hot designs on toothsome Susan, Deneuve commits the classic faux pas of asking about a blood transfusion. "Not the greatest move on a first date," observes Sarandon. Indeed, but such is the foam that washes ashore in this...
...heard from you in a while, and I'm concerned. I listen to Senator Alan Cranston's gloomy speeches and read the doomsayers in the Washington Post, and it makes me fear the bank has foreclosed on the old print shop or you are so weak from hunger that you can't write...
...unfolding violence of the communist coup. Weir also seems to be grappling with the essential human misery of the vast majority of Asia, indeed of mankind--not a new theme, to be sure, but one rarely addressed honestly by filmmakers. Even when directors treat elemental human problems--hunger, disease, poverty--they usually depict them as an incidental sideshow to the more natural cinematic book of political machinations. Misery becomes a political cliche, a problem to be solved with a wave of the hand as soon as the "right" politicians get into power...