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Belgian filmmakers take top prize at Cannes
Times Staff WriterThe 58th Festival de Cannes struck a mighty blow for socially conscious yet highly dramatic cinema Saturday when it awarded the Palme d'Or to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's quietly devastating "The Child." It was the second Palme for the Belgian...Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Celebrities, Tommy Lee Jones, Amos Gitai, Film Festivals
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Train of Life
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 5, 1999 With "Train of Life," writer-director Radu Mihaileanu came up with a clever premise, but you wish he'd played up its potential more for suspense than for broad ethnic humor. To give him credit, he does end on an unexpected...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Comedy (genre), Canal+, Deportation, International Law
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NATO vows to back U.N. on Iraq
Sun Foreign StaffPRAGUE, Czech Republic - NATO leaders agreed yesterday to issue a strong warning to Iraq as the alliance moved to transform itself from a defense-oriented relic of the Cold War to a fighting force capable of combating rogue states and terrorism worldwide....Tags: Russia, Czech Republic, European Union, Colin Powell, Politics
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Top 10 times
Men 1. Evans Rutto, Kenya, 2:05:50. 2. Paul Koech, Kenya, 2:07:07. 3. Daniel Njenga, Kenya, 2:07:41. 4. Peter Chebet, Kenya, 2:08:43. 5. Jimmy Muindi, Kenya, 2:08:57. 6. Abdelkader El Mouaziz, Morocco, 2:09:38. 7. Mebrahtom Keflezighi, United...Tags: Russia, Kenya
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Exhibits Listings
AKUS GALLERY Through Oct. 31 - "SenseLanguage," ECSU Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition. Gallery talks Sept. 19 and 26, 2:30 p.m. Opening reception Sept. 19, 5-7 p.m. •Gallery hours: Tues and Wed, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs, 1-7 p.m.; Sat and Sun, 2-5 p.m....Tags: Ben Shahn, Marsden Hartley, Trinity College, Old Lyme, Winslow Homer
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'Seed of Chucky'
Times Staff WriterIn the chintzy-looking gore-bore "Seed of Chucky," Jennifer Tilly, playing herself, defines hell as ending up on a celebrity feud show in a worm-eating contest with Anna Nicole Smith. Compared to this movie that fate doesn't sound half-bad. It opens in...Tags: Hannah Spearritt, David Kirschner, Richard Holland, Billy Boyd, Brad Dourif
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She tailors to characters
Times Staff WriterFLASH: Costumes connect characters in 'The Hours' It was Ann Roth's idea to give Nicole Kidman the nose. The much-discussed prosthetic nose that helped Kidman change physically into Virginia Woolf for her Oscar-nominated role in "The Hours" came from...Tags: Celebrities, Career and Workplace, Anthropology, Pennsylvania, Nicole Kidman
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From the archives: Crackdown Leaves China Isolated on World Scene
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- In the decade after Chinese leader Deng Xiao-ping came to power in 1979, he broke down the isolation in which China found itself under Mao Tse-tung and set the world's most populous nation on a steady course of ever-growing involvement in...Tags: Sociology, Society, Crimes, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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From the archives: Ceausescu Arrest Told; Battles Rage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLONDON -- The fiercest battles yet in a week of bloodletting rocked the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Saturday amid reports that deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is under arrest by the army. There was convincing evidence that the death toll...Tags: Health, Russia, Government, Hungary, Foreign Aid
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From the archives: Secret Police, Ceausescu's Iron Grip Led to Violence
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBUCHAREST, Romania -- For all but the last two weeks of this year, Communist Eastern Europe passed through one of the most remarkable political transformations in modern history, a massive upheaval that was accomplished with hardly a shot fired. The...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Firearms, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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From the archives: Troops Fire Into Crowds in Romania
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWARSAW -- Security forces armed with automatic weapons fired into crowds of protesters in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Thursday, killing or wounding an undetermined number of demonstrators demanding an end to the rule of dictator Nicolae...Tags: Demonstration, Career and Workplace, Health, News Agency, Employees
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From the archives: Longtime Bulgaria Leader Resigns; Reformer Named
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, the longest-serving leader in Eastern Europe, resigned Friday, thrusting his country into the political maelstrom sweeping the region. Zhivkov, 78, who stepped down after 35 years in power, was replaced as...Tags: Russia, Pennsylvania, Government, Turkey, Hungary
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