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THEY OUGHT TO CHANGE THE COMPANY'S name to Phoenix. Orion Pictures has risen from the ashes of its bankruptcy to release a few good movies. The first is LOVE FIELD, a slim but affecting drama named for the Dallas airport where John F. Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve...
...misleading effect of "reinterpreting" the attacks as being those of a few criminals on the periphery. Among the statistics experts use to illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month by the Allensbach Institute showing that sympathy for those attacking asylum seekers' lodgings has risen sharply, to 16% in western Germany and 15% in the east. Surveys have also shown a third of German youth to be openly antiforeign or inclined in that direction and about a quarter of Germans agreeing with the right-wing slogan "Foreigners...
...government's action should ease the concerns of U.S. firms by curbing imports. After years of severe competition and lagging productivity, American firms have risen out of the doldrums. But a depressed economy has caused orders for U.S. steel to decline in the past two years...
Most of the professionals represented here will be familiar names to museumgoers. On the other hand, the outsiders are mostly unknown or recognizable by name only. A few, like the visionary landscapist Joseph Yoakum (1886- or 1888-1972), have risen to minor fame through the admiration of other artists -- in his case, again, via Nutt and his friends in the Hairy Who group in Chicago in the '60s. Others are better known in Europe than in the U.S. These include Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), the near illiterate peasant schizophrenic whose stupendously complex drawings of imaginary terrains, buildings and cities, infinite...
...lowest concentration ofscholarship students had risen to 35 percent andthe highest to 56 percent. Since the overall classaverage had risen only one point to 43 percent,the figures indicate a more uniform distributionof scholarship students...