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Last night, councillors said that city officials need to present a united front against the Scheme Z plan, and that individual department's assessment of the plan must reflect the council's overall stance...
...artists have carried on the tradition in the 20th century, with its predilection for spare, abstract, modernist forms. But of those who have, the worthiest successor to Parrhasius is muralist Richard Haas, 54. "Walls present some of the most interesting and challenging surfaces in an urban area," says Haas. "I look at them as large canvases for an artist to come and paint...
Nearly every year, it seems, John Hughes gives moviegoers a surprise Christmas present: an amiable, unassuming film that blossoms into a smash entertainment. Last year it was National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Two years before that it was Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Both were a bit loud and raucous for some people, but this year Hughes' offering has a universal appeal and looks like the breakaway hit of the season. Home Alone, released on Nov. 16, has already grossed more than $50 million, and is causing jubilation in the executive suites of 20th Century Fox. "The figures we're getting...
...home in suburban Toronto, where he owns a computer company and heads the minuscule Libertarian Party of Canada. He won't even promise to move back to Poland if he wins this Sunday's runoff election. He does say he can lift his native land out of its present economic mess. He just won't say how. For good measure, he has said Poland should acquire nuclear weapons, the sooner the better...
...Edward. Wiest does a delightful turn on the plucky, loving mothers from old sitcoms. The whole movie, in fact, time-travels between today and the '50s, when every suburban house could be a quiet riot of coordinated pastels. But the film exists out of time -- out of the present cramped time, certainly -- in the any-year of a child's imagination. That child could be the little girl to whom the grandmotherly Ryder tells Edward's story nearly a lifetime after it took place. Or it could be Burton, a wise child and a wily inventor, who has created...