Question: what flower did vincent van gogh paint ?

but she also told an interviewer , `` monsieur vincent divined not the young girl i was , but the woman i was to become. ''


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van gogh gave the first of his three versions of the portrait to the ravoux family .


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the highest auction prices have been paid for flower paintings by dutch artist vincent van gogh .


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the painting , which mrs. harriman valued at $ 50 million to $ 60 million , will be the first van gogh still life to join the national gallery 's permanent collection .


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mrs. harriman said her husband , a former democratic governor of new york and heir to a railroad fortune , bought the van gogh in paris in 1930 with his mother .


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the last two of three van gogh paintings stolen from a museum last year were recovered thursday , dutch television and other news reports said .


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the news agency said the four arrests followed another ransom demand made early last month , but did not give a figure or say whether any money had been paid .


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the final and most famous version of `` potato eaters , '' also dated 1885 , is on display at the vincent van gogh national museum in amsterdam .


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if vincent van gogh had the marketing pizazz of the entrepreneurs cashing in on his centennial , he probably would n't have died a penniless suicide .


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as the van gogh 1990 foundation prepares a multi-media extravaganza here marking the 100th anniversary of the artist 's death , merchandisers are capitalizing on the event with everything from wine to ties bearing his name or image .


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the commercialization has not pleased either the foundation or van gogh 's family .


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`` it is not to our taste , '' grandnephew johan van gogh told the associated press .


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the government-backed foundation is preparing the biggest-ever van gogh show , with almost 200 works loaned from more than 50 countries for an exhibition opening on his birthday , march 30 .


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the official commemoration has the support of the van gogh family .


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`` we are going to give vincent van gogh a high quality commemoration , '' said foundation spokeswoman madeleine a. wardenaar .


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chief among them is amsterdam dentist jacob g. dekker , whose van gogh international has registered the name vincent van gogh as a trademark `` in just about every country you can think of except timbuktu '' for a variety of products .


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other commemmorative products dekker has licensed include pen sets , watches , compact discs of music composed by van gogh contemporaries debussy , ravel and chausson , and t-shirts , scarves and ties decorated with van gogh scenes .


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for those who take van gogh slightly more seriously than to dab him behind their ears or tie him around their necks , the u.s. -based franklin mint is issuing a `` limited edition '' bronze commemorative medallion for $ 150 .


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american express netherlands is offering an 8-inch bronze bust of van gogh for $ 488 .


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its manufacturer , barcelona -based vincent fine art , is also hawking van gogh reproductions and commemorative bottles of spanish champagn .


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`` when i offered my products to the gift shop of the van gogh museum , they treated me like a stray dog , '' said dekker .


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we have not much to say about it , '' said johan van gogh , grandson of the artist 's brother theo .


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johan chairs the family-run vincent van gogh foundation , which owns more than one hundred works on permanent loan to the van gogh museum here , the world 's largest single collection .


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it was only during his later french period that van gogh bloomed with the vibrant colors that have gilded the auction gavel .


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after his descent into mental illness , van gogh fatally shot himself in july 1890 at the age of 37 .


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a van gogh opera will premiere in amsterdam , a commemorative medal will be issued , a film festival screened , and a poetry book published with the poems of 20 dutch and belgian poets commissioned in his honor .


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the painting , characteristic of van gogh 's bold style , represents a patch of garden in a french asylum at saint-remy de provence , where the troubled artist committed himself following a mental breakdown in arles .


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`` this is among the most original and dynamic of all van gogh 's compositions , in which the spearlike , slashing representation of the flowers is echoed by the vibrancy of color , '' said george goldner , the getty 's curator of paintings and drawings .


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`` portrait of dr. gachet '' by vincent van gogh ; $ 82.5 million , sold by christie 's , new york , may 15 , 1990 .


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`` the trinquetaille bridge '' by vincent van gogh ; $ 20.24 million , sold by christie 's , london , june 29 , 1987 .


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a vincent van gogh painting owned by elizabeth taylor failed to sell at auction when bidding did not reach the minimum acceptable price .


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bidding on `` view of the asylum and chapel at st. remy '' started at $ 9.6 million and reached $ 11.14 million , christie 's said , but did not achieve the undisclosed reserve price .


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painted in 1889 , the work depicts the asylum where vincent van gogh committed himself toward the end of his troubled life .


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the record price for a van gogh was about $ 57 million , paid for a `` portrait of dr. gachet '' in may .


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the painting was shown at the metropolitan museum of art in new york , as part of a van gogh exhibition in 1986-87 .


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vincent van gogh 's creative compulsions brought little financial or emotional solace to the troubled dutch impressionist during his lifetime .


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a four-month extravaganza earlier this year in the netherlands commemorated the centennial of the painter 's death with about 380 paintings and drawings on show at the vincent van gogh museum in amsterdam and the kroeller-mueller museum in otterlo , and a film festival and opera .


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now comes robert altman 's passionate portrait of the artist in hemdale film 's `` vincent and theo . ''


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it is the not the first time the film world has tackled the complex life and personality of van gogh .


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altman 's is a psychological vignette , rather than a full-fleshed cinemagraphic biography , focusing on the special relationship the artist had with his brother , theo , an art dealer who nurtured vincent all his life .


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it is quite unlike vincente minnelli 's sprawling but inaccurate 1956 vision , `` lust for life , '' with kirk douglas as van gogh and anthony quinn as his one-time lover , colleague and friend , paul gauguin .


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japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa also captures van gogh in the `` crows '' segment of his movie `` akira kurosawa 's dreams . ''


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in `` crows , '' i is a grown man , a young photographer looking at some of van gogh 's work .


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van gogh 's most prolific period was 1888-89 when he painted about 200 oils and did 100 drawings .


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van gogh was born on march 30 , 1853 , in the southern netherlands village of zundert .


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on may 8 , 1889 , van gogh went to the asylum of saint - paul-de-mausole in saint-remy-de-provence , a few miles north of arles .


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the doctor there wrote in the medical register that van gogh was suffering from `` acute mania with hallucinations of sight and hearing .


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the most expensive painting ever was van gogh 's `` portrait of dr. gachet , '' which sold this year for $ 82.5 million .


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`` the sky is blue-green , the water is royal blue , the soil is mauve , '' van gogh said in a letter to theo describing the painting .


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`` the portrait of dr. gachet shows you a face the color of an overheated brick , '' wrote vincent van gogh in a letter to his sister , wil , dated june 4 , 1890 .


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earlier in his enthusiastic letter , van gogh had explained his larger interest in painting the face of his friend , a homeopathic physician and amateur painter .


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`` i should like to paint portraits which would appear after a century , to the people living then , as apparitions . ''


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how much the van gogh and the renoir will fetch is anybody 's guess , but official estimates currently range between $ 80 million and $ 100 million .


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patrons today certainly do n't write contracts in which artists agree to make paintings with specified amounts of gold-dust and pulverized lapis lazuli mixed in the pigment , as they did in the 15th century to insure the patron got his money 's worth when buying a picture of , say , the virgin and child enthroned .


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one succumbs without a struggle to rose-colored , vaguely sanctimonious nostalgia precisely at the moment when clear-eyed engagement is most crucial to maintain .


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if you believe it will , i direct your attention to a variety of items , ranging from numerous park benches now housing otherwise homeless families to a certain painting by vincent van gogh that is n't likely to be hanging in a public museum after may 15 .


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vincent van gogh 's `` portrait of dr. gachet `` stunned the art market tuesday when it was auctioned for $ 82.5 million , shattering the world record price for a painting by more than $ 28 million .


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`` portrait of dr. gachet `` was painted six weeks before van gogh committed suicide in 1890 .


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dr. paul-ferdinand gachet tended van gogh in the weeks before his death .


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in a letter to artist paul gauguin , van gogh wrote on june 16 that he had painted gachet `` with the heart-broken expression of our time '' and that it was `` not destined to be understood . ''


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gachet , a practitioner of homeopathic medicine , was van gogh 's friend and physician .


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van gogh painted a second , slightly larger version of the portrait , which hangs in the musee d'orsay in paris .


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another van gogh from the kramarsky collection was auctioned in 1987 for $ 20.24 million .


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`` the trinquetaille bridge `` by vincent van gogh ; $ 20.24 million , sold by christie 's , london , june 29 , 1987 .


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a letter from van gogh to his brother theo , dated june 17 , 1990 , described two studies of wildflowers .


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van gogh breaks record : a van gogh still life failed to sell at a christie 's auction wednesday night , but a drawing by the artist fetched a world-record price .


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vincent van gogh 's `` garden of flowers , '' a detailed rendering of a vegetable and flower garden in brown and black ink , sold to an anonymous buyer for $ 8.36 million , a world record for a drawing .


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the current record for a van gogh painting is $ 9.9 million .


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-lrb- recently , though , it did oblige one donor .


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the london -based auction house christie 's international plc said it will auction off `` le pont de trinquetaille , '' an important painting of a bridge by van gogh , on june 29 in london .


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le pont , once owned by van gogh 's sister-in-law , was shown at a major exhibition in amsterdam in 1905 and eventually was bought by siegfried kramarsky in 1932 at a paris sale .


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and many art dealers believe that the price that this second van gogh masterwork will fetch at auction will have a major influence on the art market in the near future .


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the last big crunch came in 1981 and 1982 , when auction houses were failing to sell 40 % to 70 % of the works in some sales -lrb- many recent auctions have been 95 % sold and better -rrb- , and what did sell commanded low prices .


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what the charts do n't show is that prices for the top works of art did not go down in 1982 `` or other years of declining art prices .


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the season ought to conclude with a bang : on june 29 in london , christie 's will auction off another important van gogh , entitled `` le pont de trinquetaille . ''


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another van gogh painting , of a bridge , was sold in june at christie 's for $ 20.2 million .


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sotheby 's would only estimate that the painting will fetch `` well over $ 20 million , '' but experts say it 's the finest van gogh to come to market in decades .


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in june , christie 's sold a van gogh painting of a bridge for $ 20.2 million .


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`` you ca n't move a hunk of land quickly to switzerland like you can a van gogh . ''


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sotheby 's would say only that the van gogh was bought by a european agent for an anonymous collector `` somewhere in the world . ''


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the work was painted in 1889 while van gogh was a voluntary patient at an asylum for the insane in saint-remy de provence , france , where he lived until his suicide in 1890 at 37 years old .


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after selling the van gogh , lot 25 of 100 artworks sold , mr. marion , who was the auctioneer , had trouble quieting the crowd .


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singer billy joel is doing fine after doctors operated to remove a kidney stone , according to his wife , model christie brinkley .


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brinkley is married to singer billy joel .


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rock star billy joel says he no longer cares for his early 1970s cult hit `` captain jack '' or his popular song `` my life , '' which he describes as childishly redundant .


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joel made it clear his professional career , not his private life , was the topic of the day .


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joel said he writes his music first , composing the melody to what he called `` bail-out lyrics '' that establish a song 's phrasing .


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later , when he wrote the real words , joel said , he thought the phrase `` what will it take 'til you believe in me _ the way that i believe in you '' was essential to its success .


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joel , who signed a contract as a young musician that gave away his rights to his early songs , said his advice to newcomers to the field was `` to get a lawyer . ''


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joel should be released from the hospital soon , schock said , but he will postpone his trip for four weeks to promote his new album .


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on monday , joel filed a $ 90 million lawsuit against his former brother-in-law and manager , alleging the loss of millions of dollars because of theft and risky investments .


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cover girl , married to billy joel , mother of a beautiful daughter _ and now she 's figured out a way to fight lyme disease .


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billy joel once epitomized the angry young man he sang about in the mid-1970s .


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joel is almost a year into a 15-month world tour to promote his triple- platinum `` storm front '' lp and get himself out of a sea of red ink .


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althouyh one of the biggest selling solo artists in the history of colombia records - with 14 albums and 25 top- 40 singles in his catalog , joel has little financially to show for it .


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the suit asks for $ 60 million in punitive damages and alleges that weber duped joel out of $ 30 million , losing $ 10 million of it in unsafe investments .


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`` i have n't gotten a penny back yet , '' joel said in an interview before a recent sold-out concert here .


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joel is well aware that his cash-flow problems would be history if he agreed to tour sponsorship , but the subject makes him bristle .


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if he did accept sponsorship , joel is wary of another round of bashing from some segments of the media .


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born william martin joel , he grew up in hicksville , n.y. , and discovered mozart at age 4 before taking 10 years of piano lessons .


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as a second-grader , joel remembers watching elvis presley perform on television one night and then trying to duplicate his moves at school the next day .


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in 1971 , joel was homeless , sleeping on laundromat floors and surviving on peanut butter sandwiches when he signed a solo recording contract with family productions .


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kmpc is carrying a weekly angel talk show tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. , with joel meyers as the regular host and angel announcers al conin and ken brett doing guest spots .


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the firm was hired by joel 's former brother-in-law and ex-manager , frank weber , whom joel also sued .


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weber and the firm worked for joel from 1981 to 1989 . ;


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a lower court threw out the fraud allegations last year but ruled that joel could proceed on charges of negligence and breach of contract , marks said .


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joel , whose latest album is `` storm front , '' divorced weber 's sister , elizabeth , about 10 years ago .


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this wednesday , abc will present `` a matter of trust : billy joel in the u.s.s.r. `` -lrb- 9 : 30-11 p.m. edt -rrb- .


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partway through this part-concert-film-part-travelogue , the talented mr. joel sits at a grand piano telling the studio audience of a popular leningrad tv show the tale of how he decided to bring his band on a tour of the soviet union .


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in this respect , mr. joel joins the rest of the glasnost-drunk media in pushing the by-now cliched `` positive image '' of the russians as a sweet-faced , graceful race skateboarding into a glorious future without state censorship , one-party rule , secret police , nuclear weapons , rutabaga shortages -- or winter .


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and honesty requires me to confess that i am a billy joel fan .


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elsewhere in the leningrad tv clip , mr. joel offers a summary of his beginning as a rock musician .


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i do n't know if mr. joel was particularly aware of it , but his story resonates with a long history of keen russian appreciation for american popular music .


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strong as the soviet interest in rock is , it does n't pay mr. joel 's bills .


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mr. joel has also taken pains to attract as much as possible of the free hype surrounding any mixture of soviet glasnost with american stardust .


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when asked in the film whether he would advise other rock musicians to tour the soviet union , mr. joel shrugs half -ironically : `` yeah , if they can swing it financially . ''


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but in the next sequence , when mr. joel sings `` a matter of trust , '' to a young , starry-eyed crowd , it 's obvious they 're enthralled by something larger than the thrill , all-too-familiar to us , of attending a live rock concert .


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it is during the next number that mr. joel suddenly knocks over an electric piano and breaks a microphone stand in order to get the technical crew to quit shining spotlights on the audience .


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after all , it is not the kgb but joel 's own staff who is lighting the audience .


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toward the end of the film , mr. joel provides more grist for the publicists ' mills . while singing his lyrical doo-wop number , `` the longest time , '' he stops at the edge of the stage , where the ecstatic fans are straining to touch him and , turning his back , falls into their many-armed embrace .


Question: what is the name of the highest mountain in africa ?

yet kilimanjaro , africa 's highest mountain , remained veiled in ominous mist as we drove towards it out of kenya .


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light-headed with pride , altitude and lack of sleep , we all elected to climb for another hour , trudging around the rim of the crater to the summit , uhuru peak , at 19 , 385ft the highest point in africa .


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kilimanjaro -- at 19,342 feet the highest mountain in africa .


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mount kilimanjaro , at 19,342 feet , is africa 's highest mountain , and is 5,000 feet higher than any mountain in the united states , excepting alaska .


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now he had coaxed 11 of them , including one englishman , to share his mid-life crisis and climb kilimanjaro in style .


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the incessant rain that never falls on kilimanjaro in february had been replaced by the driving snow that so rarely dusts its upper slopes , according to the notes on the ordnance survey map .


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the huge volcanic cone of kilimanjaro remained invisible above and below us .


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the sun rose behind the science-fiction peak of mawenzi , kilimanjaro 's little sister .


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but then , to our great relief , it became clear why kilimanjaro had to be climbed at night .


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but kilimanjaro 's succession of climates - from banana groves , through rain-forest , through a moss-zone that would delight any japanese temple - gardener , through afghanistan into antarctica - was more striking and rapid than in the himalaya .


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this is because kilimanjaro shoots abruptly up out of a 3 , 000ft plain .


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we had come to africa to climb kilimanjaro , the dormant volcano located some 200 miles south of the equator on the border between kenya and tanzania .


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for jim and me , dilettante backpackers and runners , the five-day , 52-mile kilimanjaro ascent was a test of will and endurance .


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kilimanjaro is a tanzanian national park , and each climbing party is required to have a guide who in turn provisions and cooks for the expedition .


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like most kilimanjaro climbers , we elected to do the ascent himalayan style , with porters carrying all but day packs .


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since the 1840s , when missionaries and geologists began trying to climb kilimanjaro , mountaineering has become a major source of income and employment for the region .


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the entrance to the park was crowded with americans , japanese , australians and europeans , some seeking climbing permits , others returning from successful -lrb- or abortive -rrb- attempts to reach kilimanjaro 's summit .


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the first leg of the expedition was a 5-mile climb through a rain forest that girdles kilimanjaro at 6,000 to 9,500 feet .


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-lrb- the kilimanjaro massif rises out of a plain that is about 3,500 feet above sea level .


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on our climb the next morning we broke through the upper reaches of the rain forest onto a grassy , rolling savanna , passed another hillock and caught our first glimpse of the 16 , 000-foot mawensi , the younger , though far more weathered companion peak to kibo , the main crater of kilimanjaro .


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kilimanjaro climbers can go for the summit on a five - or six-day trip or spend a day or so wandering trails on the lower reaches .


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02139 , telephone -lrb- 800 -rrb- 221-0814 , and adventure center , 5540-a college ave. , oakland 94618 , telephone -lrb- 800 -rrb- 227-8747 or -lrb- 415 -rrb- 654-1879 , offer kilimanjaro as a seven-day adjunct to their african safaris .


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-lrb- a number of nairobi tour operators offer kilimanjaro safaris through their tanzanian affiliates -rrb- .


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getting to kilimanjaro can be expensive and time-consuming .


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british air , klm , ethiopian and pakistan airlines fly into kilimanjaro international airport .


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still , there is only one flight a week between kilimanjaro and nairobi .


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imagine , you 're a network sportscaster , covering college basketball in february , when your boss calls and says , `` next week , we 're sending you to africa to cover an attempt to climb mount kilimanjaro .


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twelve mentally disabled californians , ranging in age from 19 to 30 , went on the kilimanjaro venture , accompanied by a coach for each and an independent film crew headed by emmy award-winning producer mike tollin .


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kilimanjaro is located about 150 miles south of nairobi on the border between kenya and tanzania .


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only about 25 % of the people who attempt to climb kilimanjaro make it to the top .


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the mountain veiled itself again , and stayed hidden from us , bar the odd glimpse , for the next four days .


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of the 50 other climbers who had been attempting the separate 'tourist ' route up the mountain that night , just two stumbled with us to this true summit .


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the equatorial sun , grilling down on us with pure ultra-violet , had melted the top of the mountain into a great , barely climbable mound of white slush and black volcanic sand .


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we reached the highest tourist refuge , kibo huts , at lunchtime and collapsed on to grubby bunks for a brief doze .


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we had avoided the normal , much-trodden marangu route up the mountain and had taken the more beautiful machame trail .


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although professional climbers sometimes scoff at the mountain as being `` technically unchallenging , '' the altitude and cold -- as many of our companions discovered -- proved otherwise .


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built by the british in the late 1940s , the moshi hotel bears its pre-independence name -- the livingstone hotel -- in large stucco letters on the cornice .


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there is a danger of not getting one -- especially in august when the mountain is so crowded .


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this portion of the mountain is almost perpetually covered with dense , low-lying clouds below which lichen- and creeper-shrouded trees and grasses have adapted to life with little sunlight .


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-lrb- in world war i a troop of german soldiers , trapped behind relentlessly advancing british troops , surrendered at the cave after having hidden out on the mountain for eight months -rrb- .


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the equatorial sun was out in full force when we finally reached the rock on the western rim that marks the highest point on the african continent .


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i 'd always heard of the exhilaration of surveying the panorama after conquering this mountain .


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a number of american adventure travel companies , including mountain travel inc. , 1398-m solano ave .


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those traveling on their own can make arrangements to climb the mountain through the marangu hotel , p.o .


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nighttime temperatures on the mountain can fall to zero degrees fahrenheit , and rain is common even in the dry season .


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nbc probably will name at least one fairly soon , since it will televise magic johnson 's `` midsummer night 's magic `` all-star game at the forum on aug. 11 .


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ratings game : although the world cup final got only a 2.2 national cable rating , which translates to about a 1 rating overall , the soccer match drew an l.a. rating of 7.6 on channel 34 , the highest l.a. sports rating of the day .


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mr peter horne , apricot managing director , said using new technology would cut costs and improve efficiency to the point where manufacturing costs in scotland were lower than at mitsubishi 's plants in either singapore or japan .


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dr peter horne , chairman of apricot computers , the uk -based workstation manufacturer owned by mitsubishi of japan , which turned over pounds 45m last year , said it might mean an extra 1 per cent or 2 per cent on gross profit margins , but the effect would be swamped by the savage price-cutting which characterises the global personal computer business .


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this is taking place at a time of rapid technological change and , said dr peter horne , managing director of apricot computers , the information revolution will change the habit of companies doing most of their business in local markets .


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personal computer production at the apricot computer plant in glenrothes , scotland , is likely to treble next year after completion of a 3,000 sq metre extension .


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it will mean a further 25 jobs , a 10 per cent increase in apricot 's workforce .


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last year , as part of the expansion plan , mitsubishi increased apricot 's paid-up capital from pounds 3.2m to pounds 12.6m .


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at present apricot buys some of its printed circuit boards from subcontractors .


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apricot is mitsubishi 's world centre for workstations and open systems - compatible with industry standard - technology .


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mr david boole , director of public affairs , said : 'for jaguar as an operating unit the exchange rate is a disaster .


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mr peter bates , sales and marketing director of the savoy hotel group , said : 'there is no doubt that it is very expensive for an american to come here at the moment . '


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but mr christopher taylor , finance director , said : 'sales into dollar economies which are being delivered now were sold at much better than the present rate .


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mr roger heape , managing director of british airways holidays , said that the state of the dollar had allowed the company to offer 1993 holidays at prices 6 per cent lower than this year .


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'the future for us is customer loyalty , ' said mr stephen cronin , group resources director at rank xerox -lrb- uk -rrb- .


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mr allan amey , managing director of ldv , formerly leyland daf vans , warned that 'the larger the organisation the more in-built corporate inertia exists ' .


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in 1917 , china declared war on germany and austria at the start of world war i. in 1935 , the social security act became law , creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly .


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it was renamed petrograd in 1914 , at the start of world war i , to change the german -sounding name to its russian equivalent .


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today 's highlight in history : on aug. 14 , 1945 , president harry s. truman announced that japan had unconditionally surrendered , ending the hostilities of world war ii .


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capitulation came several days after the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki , and after emperor hirohito called on japan 's war council to give up .


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the serbian kingdom dominated yugoslavia prior to world war ii , but has since been divided into the serbian republic proper and the two autonomous provinces of vojvodina and kosovo .


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yugoslavia 's second poorest republic , it was part of serbia before world war ii .


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in 1945 , president truman announced that japan had unconditionally surrendered , ending the hostilities of world war ii .


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sept 1 , 1939 _ hitler 's army invades poland , setting off world war ii .


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may 8 , 1945 _ the third reich accepts unconditional surrender after the allied victory in a war that devastated much of europe and killed 55 million people .


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the plan is to let traders and investors absorb the war news before making investment decisions .


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the first reaction in the market as a result of a war would probably be a sharp decline in stock prices on heavy trading volume , brokerage firm executives say .


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there are now so many red lights , in fact , that market professionals and government officials say it would be all but impossible for the dow jones industrial average to plummet 508 points in a few hours as it did on oct. 19 , 1987 .


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in preparation for a mideast war and the expected surge in trading volume , the chicago board of trade , chicago mercantile exchange and new york mercantile exchange -lrb- where oil futures are traded -rrb- have all just raised margins -- the good-faith money needed to trade their futures contracts .


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the big board also closed on aug. 15 and 16 , 1945 , at the end of world war ii .


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some market experts say that this time , if war breaks out , the markets wo n't necessarily plunge into a free fall .


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a war could drastically heighten that volatility .


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but mean sea level is the same the world over .


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philip ii of spain considered such a waterway , and so did simon bolivar and suez-canal planner ferdinand de lesseps .


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there is only one reason why the canal is a lock-type canal : when the u.s. undertook the project , president teddy roosevelt wanted the canal built before the next war broke out .


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after the third locks plan was abandoned because of world war ii , nothing substantial has been done since then to increase the capacity of the canal .


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the canal has served the world for 77 years and is ready to be retired .


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but they did experiment with the concept .


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the serbian kingdom dominated yugoslavia prior to world war ii , but has since been divided into the serbian republic proper and the two autonomous provinces of vojvodina and kosovo .


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yugoslavia 's second poorest republic , it was part of serbia before world war ii .


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the fast-food chain branched into eastern europe on march 24 when it opened a restaurant in belgrade , the capital of yugoslavia , and plans to open another one in budapest in may .


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on saturday , milosevic was honored by hundreds of thousands of serbs at a rally in belgrade , the capital of both yugoslavia and serbia .


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thanks to some dedicated doctors in district hospital no. 1 in timisoara , and the friendly intervention of yugoslav diplomats in the city , i survived and was evacuated within two days to yugoslavia 's capital belgrade .


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thousands of serbs held anti-albanian demonstrations in their republic thursday , including about 5,000 in novi sad , 30 miles north of belgrade , capital of both yugoslavia and serbia .


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in belgrade , the capital of yugoslavia , security men got nervous about the crush of people and hustled gorbachev 's entourage back into limousines for a quick departure .


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serbia , the largest of yugoslavia 's six republics , also wants yugoslavia to stay a centralized federation with its capital in the current serbian and federal capital of belgrade .


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before declaring independence last june following a republic-wide referendum , slovenes , in their pragmatic way , had attempted to find a modus vivendi with the status quo in belgrade , federal capital of the former yugoslavia and the capital of serbia .


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slovenia and croatia accuse the socialist -controlled federal government of poor economic management , blaming belgrade -- the capital of both yugoslavia and serbia -- for the federation 's $ 16-billion foreign debt , rising inflation and unemployment that has left nearly one in five yugoslavs without a job .


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it promises slovenian respect for all international borders and serves official notice on belgrade , the capital , that yugoslavia 's dissolution `` begins with this resolution. '' ;


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draskovic , who wears the flowing beard and hair of a 19th-century serbian patriot , was transported from his jail cell tuesday night to a flood-lit platform in republic square , where he delivered a speech that was triumphant , vehemently nationalistic and bitterly anti-communist to a vast crowd that howled and whistled with delight. ; the demonstrations in belgrade -- capital of both yugoslavia and serbia -- came amid a worsening ethnic and political crisis in this patchwork balkan country of six combative republics .


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mesic , joined by representatives from the republics of slovenia and macedonia , walked out of the session held in belgrade in the federal capital and declared that in spite of the deadlock , he considers himself yugoslavia 's president . ; `` no one else can perform this function , '' said mesic , 56 , a lawyer , who returned to the croatian capital , zagreb , as other members of the presidency continued to meet in belgrade .


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an ominous message sent to peterle by the regional army commander , gen. konrad kolsek , warned that orders from the federal capital of belgrade to secure yugoslavia 's borders would be `` executed unconditionally '' and that any slovenian attempts at resistance would be crushed. ;


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to a dubious population , this came as proof that despite the lull in the fighting , no one is ready or able to solve the quarrels that are driving this country apart -- not here in the croatian capital , not in belgrade , capital of both the republic of serbia and yugoslavia , nor in any of the capitals of europe . ;


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in belgrade , the capital of serbia and yugoslavia , a long column of federal army tanks and artillery headed west out of the city in the direction of croatia to the cheers of thousands of onlookers . ; yugoslavia 's federal defense minister , veljko kadijevic , in a letter to lord carrington today saying he had ordered the army not to fire first in croatia .


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at thursday 's meeting in belgrade , the serbian and federal capital , representatives of the truncated presidency and the serb -dominated federal parliament agreed to meet to discuss a new yugoslavia on jan. 3 , tanjug said. ;


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serbian leaders are adamant about maintaining the current shape of yugoslavia with central control concentrated in belgrade , which is also the serbian capital .


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three small children burned to death in a village in central yugoslavia while their parents were away , the state news agency tanjug reported saturday .


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here are facts and figures on yugoslavia 's six republics and two autonomous provinces :


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slovenia : a northern republic bordering austria and italy , is home to most of yugoslavia 's 1.7 million slovenes .


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it has the most prosperous economy of yugoslavia 's six republics , with 8 percent of the national population accounting for 24 percent of national exports .


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croatia : the second most developed yugoslav republic , has resisted any attempt by serbs to dominate yugoslavia .


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it was the birthplace of communist yugoslavia 's founding father , the late josip broz tito .


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the capital is sarajevo , where world war i was was started with the assassination of archduke ferdinand of austria , in june 1914 .


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it is known as the breadbasket of yugoslavia because of its fertile plains .


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kosovo : the province bordering communist albania is yugoslavia 's most ethnically troubled region .


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macedonia : yugoslavia 's southernmost and poorest republic is home to most of the country 's 1.3 million macedonians .


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thousands of ethnic albanians marched in a blizzard through this provincial capital on sunday in defiance of government orders to end a wave of ethnic unrest and street demonstrations .


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milosevic has antagonized non- serb communist leaders with his campaign , which they fear may only be the first step toward increasing the already powerful role of serbia , yugoslavia 's largest republic , in federal affairs .


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on sunday , 1,500 ethnic croatians demanding a homeland in yugoslavia demonstrated outside the yugoslav consulate .


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macedonia , an ancient kingdom in southeastern europe in the balkan peninsula , is now a region divided among greece , bulgaria and yugoslavia .


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yugoslavia protested to australia over the demonstration , said yugoslavia 's state news agency tanjug .


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yugoslavia was proclaimed a nation on nov. 29 , 1945 , with croatia and serbia as two of its six republics .


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sydney has a large immigrant population from yugoslavia , which has been rocked by ethnic strife and economic troubles in recent months .


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the land _ yugoslavia covers 98,766 square miles , slightly larger than wyoming .


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yugoslavia occupies the western part of the balkan peninsula , with a long coast on the adriatic sea .


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yugoslavia is bordered by austria , italy and hungary in the north , romania and bulgaria in the east , and greece and albania in the south .


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the people _ yugoslavia 's population of just over 23 million includes about 30 different nationalities .


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yugoslavia 's ethnic diversity has been a source of strife for centuries .


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yugoslavia now has a $ 21 billion foreign debt , 250 percent inflation and 15 percent unemployment .


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history : for about five centuries , much of the land that is modern yugoslavia was under ottoman rule , shaken off in 19th century uprisings .


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during world war ii , the nazi invaders were fought both by royalists and communist partisans under tito , who then became yugoslavia 's undisputed postwar leader .


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tito broke with soviet dictator josef stalin in 1948 , and yugoslavia became a nonaligned communist country .


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leaflets calling for an armed uprising by ethnic albanians in yugoslavia 's troubled southern province of kosovo have been discovered in a town in the region , the state tanjug news agency reported wednesday .


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the region , yugoslavia 's poorest , has been the scene of strife between the ethnic albanian majority and the slav minority since some albanians rioted there in 1981 , demanding greater autonomy for the province .


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two deaths occurred in podujevo , 20 miles north of the provincial capital of pristina , during a five-hour demonstration , tanjug said .


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yugoslavia 's central government said thursday the situation is `` further deteriorating , '' and the official news agency tanjug called it `` dramatic. ''


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violence in kosovo has caused a backlash in some other parts of yugoslavia , a loose federation of six republics and two autonomous provinces , including demands by slavs for weapons so they can fight in kosovo for the slavic minority .


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as many as 100,000 slavs , some firing guns into the air , rallied on wednesday in titograd , capital of montenegro .


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mikhail s. gorbachev 's motorcade , all 70 cars , slowed down on the way from the airport to the canadian capital on tuesday as it passed spike wormington 's hand-printed sign .


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serbs and croats have been rivals since yugoslavia was created in 1918 .


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even over the past two years , when efforts to save the federation from disintegration - it was by then already slipping deeper into political and economic crisis - had all but failed , the slovenes attempted to salvage what remained of yugoslavia by proposing a confederation of sovereign states .


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its trade with the other republics of yugoslavia was being blocked by serbia ; its contributions to the federal budget were being squandered ; its citizens ' foreign exchange deposits were financing the federal defence establishment .


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during that night , in the course of which young and old slovenes celebrated their independence in the streets of the slovene capital of ljubljana , the yugoslav federal army , or people 's army , crossed into slovenia in an attempt to gain control over the republic 's external borders .


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economically , slovenia , has for the moment lost its market share in the former republics of yugoslavia , which previously accounted for more than 30 per cent of exports and imports .


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foreign investors are already seeking access to markets in the former republics of yugoslavia by setting up joint ventures in slovenia .


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industrial production , compared with last year , is this year expected to fall by 4 per cent to 15 per cent because of the war in neighbouring croatia and the loss of markets in the former yugoslavia .


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but unlike many of its east european counterparts and neighbours of the former yugoslavia , the slovene government has not allowed the paraphernalia and symbols of nationalism to prevail over pragmatism .


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yugoslavia 's two most prosperous republics plan to secede unless they are granted economic and military autonomy .


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`` if the results are such that the opposition has failed even to win a majority in the assembly , then it means the end of yugoslavia , '' said a senior western diplomat .


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`` we expect calm in serbia now , but i fear for yugoslavia , '' said alexander ptic , a recent uc berkeley graduate who returned to campaign for draskovic and his anti-communist movement .


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`` it 's the worst thing that could have happened for yugoslavia as a nation , '' he concluded .


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an official with yugoslavia 's largest bank , who did not want to be identified , said serbia has recently run up debts in excess of $ 4 billion .


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`` yugoslavia is bankrupt -- serbia as well -- and we ca n't expect help from anyone because we have already squandered our credit . ''


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diplomats and opposition figures said they worry that serbia , and yugoslavia by extension , was headed for a `` bulgaria scenario . ''


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yugoslavia will face the additional pressure of its most prosperous republics trying to bolt from the federation , undermining any hope of economic recovery .


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slovenia and croatia , yugoslavia 's two most prosperous republics , have said they plan to secede unless they are granted economic and military autonomy .


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serbia , the largest of yugoslavia 's six republics , and the communist -dominated federal army have insisted that the federation be held together at all costs. ;


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through their advantage as members of the dominant ethnic group in yugoslavia , serbian officials managed in late december to order the federal bank to print new money without the knowledge or approval of the other republics .


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croatia and slovenia , engaged in a bitter dispute with serbia about the future of yugoslavia because of their ties to the west , denounced the use of the military . ;


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tanjug today quoted jovic as saying the security situation in yugoslavia `` has been endangered in various parts of the country . '' ;


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election blocked ; for the second time in two days , serbia and its allies on the eight -member presidency , as yugoslavia 's governing federal council is called , blocked the election of stipe mesic , the croatian representative , as federal president .


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mesic , the outgoing vice president , is entitled to the job under the rules of rotation set forth in yugoslavia 's constitution . ;


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fear of secession ; many in yugoslavia had feared the failure to pass the president 's job to croatia would propel the republic 's nationalist government toward a unilateral move on independence , following the lead of slovenia , a republic that has already said it will declare independence june 26 . ;


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`` it is very good for croatia to wait now , to show people serbian robbery and serbian politics against the constitution , '' said zvanko lerotic , a deputy to croatian president franjo tudjman . ; croatia is scheduled to hold a republicwide referendum sunday , asking its citizens whether they favor a sovereign state or membership in a federated yugoslavia .


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while no violence was reported in croatia , yugoslav army tanks also were reported moving near the republic 's capital of zagreb in a move that mirrored the federal army 's actions before the slovenian crackdown. ;


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the clashes fed tensions here and in the breakaway republics by forcing the question of whether the crisis in yugoslavia could be solved peacefully .


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in normally placid ljubljana , gunfire and explosions resounded at nightfall , chasing frightened pedestrians indoors and imposing an atmosphere of siege throughout the capital . ;


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its communist leaders have said they would not tolerate the dismemberment of yugoslavia . ;


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croatia , bent on breaking loose from yugoslavia , wants it back. ;


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in an interview wednesday aired by the british television channel sky news , milosevic said croatia was free to leave yugoslavia , provided it allowed serbian militants to vote in a referendum on whether they wished to remain in croatia. ;


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`` if they want to get out of yugoslavia , they can not take with them part of the serbian people , who have an equal right to self-determination , '' milosevic said. ;


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a week later , croats voted to leave yugoslavia .


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on wednesday , from another corner of yugoslavia , a new dimension was added to the widening crisis .


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reflecting macedonia 's mistrust of serbian ambitions , kiro gligorov , the republic 's president , said in announcing the vote that `` macedonia can not stay inside what would remain of yugoslavia if croatia and slovenia left . ''


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lord carrington , who signed the latest cease-fire agreement tuesday with the croatian and serbian presidents and the federal defense minister , said he would not return to yugoslavia if it failed. ;


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all was relatively quiet today in zagreb , the croatian capital that came under heavy attack tuesday night .


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the attack on the town of 55,000 people 30 miles southwest of zagreb , the capital of separatist croatia , reportedly ended before daylight , as did clashes elsewhere. ;


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branko kostic , acting head of the federal presidency , which now is run by serbia , said a document was being prepared detailing possible borders and the structure of a new yugoslavia , tanjug news agency reported. ;


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strategic move ; in a clear appeal to serb leaders in croatia and bosnia - herzegovina , tanjug said all parties interested in preserving yugoslavia would be invited to attend. ; the move appeared to be an attempt by serbian president slobodan milosevic to inherit the remnants of the yugoslav federation , which effectively has disintegrated since the june 25 independence declarations of slovenia and croatia .


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yugoslavia first was formed in 1918 as a union consisting of the kingdom of serbs , croats and slovenes .


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it became yugoslavia in 1929 and was re-formed as a communist -ruled federation in 1945 after world war ii. ; germany already has recognized the independence of croatia and slovenia , and the full 12 -member european community is expected to recognize them jan. 15 . ;


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these two blockades , frustrating both economics and politics in this fractured land , have ignited ethnic tensions and pushed yugoslavia closer to the point of breaking up .


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`` nowhere else in the world do you have such treachery , '' says mr. mula , suggesting that the time has come for croatia to put into action the name of this ancient adriatic port : split from yugoslavia and form an independent state .


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and the federal army , dominated by serbian officers , vows it wo n't stand by and allow the dissolution of yugoslavia .


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the moves for independence in the balkans -- slovenia , the westernmost republic of yugoslavia has vowed to leave the federation next month -- parallels the push for independence by the baltic states in the soviet union .


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both the european community and the u.s. have urged yugoslavia to remain united and have threatened to cut off financial aid if the country splits up .


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the territory of present-day yugoslavia has been straddling the fault line of competing cultures since the middle ages .


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stipe mesic , the croatian nominee , would have been the first non-communist president of yugoslavia since world war ii .


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`` the final shape of yugoslavia has to be the result of dialogue , '' says mario nobilo , a spokesman for the croatian president .


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the adriatic tourist beaches , the main foreign exchange earner in both croatia and yugoslavia , are deserted .


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in 1976 , guccione cast her in his sexually explicit movie `` caligula , '' which thoreson now says was a pornographic film that ruined her career .


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in 1976 , guccione cast thoreson in `` caligula , '' a movie based loosely on the life of the mad roman emperor .


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ten years after the film `` caligula '' was seized by city vice detectives , the controversial photographs of robert mapplethorpe will arrive next month with the impassioned backing of the institute of contemporary art .


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she testified during the march 1989 trial that guccione forced her to perform hard-core sex acts in a pornographic movie and used her sexual favors as partial payment to furnish a hotel-casino he owned in atlantic city .


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he made her penthouse pet of the year in 1975 and invited her to move into his new york townhouse , which she did .


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guccione testified during the trial that he cast her in caligula because she was sexually `` and perfect for the part. ''


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thoreson , 37 , testified during the 1989 trial that guccione forced her to perform hard-core sex acts in a pornographic movie and used her sexual favors as partial payment to furnish a hotel-casino he owned in atlantic city .


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he signed her to a personal management contract , changed her name to anika di lorenzo , made her penthouse pet of the year in 1975 and took her into his new york townhouse .


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ten years after the film `` caligula `` was seized by city vice detectives , the controversial photographs of robert mapplethorpe will arrive next month with the impassioned backing of the institute of contemporary art .


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the privately owned plane was a world war ii- era p-51 mustang , a single- engine two-seater , said a duty officer at the federal aviation administration 's regional office in fort worth , who declined to give his name .


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a world war ii- era fighter plane crashed saturday during an air show at dyess air force base , killing the pilot , authorities said .


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the plane crashed next to a runway at 1 : 05 p.m. , said sgt .


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retired lt. col. jack morgan , who was announcing the air show , saw the plane crash nose- first .


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the plane did n't burn , said mark jeffries , who was covering the air show for radio station ktlc .


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the plane did not crash near the crowd , authorities said .


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the pilot and plane had been flying `` in support of '' the confederate air show , forge said in a statement .


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the group , which recently announced plans to move to midland , owns 145 restored airplanes from world war ii and stages air shows worldwide .


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a retired airline pilot , max gardner , died in october 1988 when a confederate plane he was flying , a twin-engine douglas a-20 havoc attack bomber , crashed into a cornfield during an air show in harlingen .


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according to a military source , the u.s. imperialists brought in succession overseas-based fighter-bombers , pursuit-assault planes , vertical takeoff and landing assault planes and an early warning plane , and tanker planes to south korea , and staged provocative joint air war exercises against the north .


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on 4 april , an e-3 early warning plane , called a flying commanding post , commanded airplanes , which ran wild with joint air war exercises , by searching targets under the protection by formations of pursuit-assault planes .


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on 4 and 5 april , kc-135 tanker planes refueled 50 -odd f-16 fighter-bombers and a-10 assault planes engaged in air war exercises , by making shuttle flights between the skies over the sea off kunsan and tokchok island for a long time , thus instigating an atmosphere of war .


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these gun powder-reeking and frenzied war exercises were an extremely dangerous play with fire aimed at promoting actual combat capabilities of overseas-based airplanes for mobilization to bases in south korea and for a surprise northward attack under coordination with formations of airplanes belonging to the u.s. air force in south korea and the puppet air force .


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armed hooligans of the puppet army occupied the attack starting points in pangmong -ni , paju county , chokkori , yonchon county , and oechon-ni and yulli in chorwon -up , chorwon county in the south korean kangwon province , and fired more than 1,000 shells of large -caliber machine guns and automatic rifles , thus showing war hysterics .


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warplanes mobilized in various air war games against the north which were staged over south korea on 4 and 5 april totaled more than 700 .


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each plane would cost upwards of $ 500 million .


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however , he said that the single incident did not represent a resumption of the war against iraq . ;


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however , he added that the single incident did not represent a resumption of the war against iraq . ;


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commuters driving along highway 101 are often buzzed by the lumbering planes landing at moffett. ; the newer version orion entered service in 1969 and the 267th plane -- the last in production -- was delivered to moffett in april 1990 , according to jane 's all the world 's aircraft , the bible of airplane guides. ;


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the p-3s have a wing span of 100 feet , a length of 116 feet , and a height of 37 feet .


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from a base in the indian ocean atoll diego garcia and another closer to the gulf , american p-3s performed reconnaissance work for carrier battle groups . ;


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the p-3s made eight flights a day , for 11 hours at a time -- far longer than carrier-based aircraft could fly .


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both squadrons date to the years after world war ii and were given their present names in 1953 . ;


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the saudi forces also claimed to have rescued 12 american soldiers who had been trapped in the city .


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there were n't any immediate reports of american casualties in the action .


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they also said iraq was massing some additional troops to the west , near the kuwaiti city of wafra , but that american air-to-ground attacks yesterday appeared to be forcing those troops to disperse .


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and baghdad radio reported that saddam hussein spent wednesday night , when some of the action was under way , at the war front .


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in a separate battlefield incident , an american woman soldier appears to have been captured .


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lt. gen. thomas kelly , director of operations for the pentagon 's joint staff , said two american soldiers , one a man and one a woman , were `` missing in combat . ''


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it was n't clear precisely where the plane was shot down or how big its crew was ; the pentagon wo n't confirm the loss of u.s. planes until it has time to search for crew members .


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iraq appears to be trying to lure iran into the war on its side .


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iraq 's effort to pull iran into the war would be advanced if it could provoke israel into the war .


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that would allow saddam hussein to proclaim that the war really is a struggle of islamic states , such as iraq and iran , against the jewish state and its supporters .


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israel would be aided in such an effort by new access it has gained to `` real-time '' american spy satellite photos of western iraq , where the iraqi missiles are based .


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however , the u.s. so far is refusing to coordinate such an action with israel , admiral ben-shoshan said , and has denied israel the electronic codes necessary to assure that u.s. and allied jets flying over the war zone can identify israeli planes as friendly .


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president bush told american jewish leaders that he is n't ready yet to order american forces into a ground war to drive iraqi troops out of kuwait , one of the leaders said after the white house meeting .


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in addition , a spanish radio report said that american b-52s are using a base in southern spain to launch raids on iraq , reuters news service reported .


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president john f. kennedy -lrb- 1917-1963 -rrb- .


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`` the dawn came , but no day , '' wrote john steinbeck in `` the grapes of wrath , '' the classic novel of the dust bowl .


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`` the grapes of wrath '' steppenwolf theater company , the superstar of chicago theater troupes , has come up with a version of john steinbeck 's memorable novel of the depression .


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in 1947 , john steinbeck 's novel `` the pearl '' was first published .


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steinbeck had also written a 70,000 -word precursor to `` the grapes of wrath '' that he destroyed , saying the novel was too vicious and `` smart-alec , '' too much of a political tract .


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hart won a golden globe award for `` east of eden , '' an adaptation of the john steinbeck novel .


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john steinbeck always turned down requests to adapt for the stage `` the grapes of wrath , '' his epic novel about dust bowl okies and their migration to the promised land of california .


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`` the grapes of wrath , '' the steppenwolf theater company 's adaptation of john steinbeck 's classic novel of the depression .


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in 1939 , viking press first published the novel `` the grapes of wrath '' by john steinbeck .


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nominated for best play were `` the piano lesson '' by august wilson , which won the pulitzer prize for drama ; `` lettice and lovage '' by peter shaffer ; `` prelude to a kiss '' by craig lucas ; and `` the grapes of wrath , '' an adaptation of the john steinbeck novel by frank galati .


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it will face `` prelude to a kiss , '' a comic fantasy by craig lucas , `` lettice & lovage , '' by peter shaffer , and `` the grapes of wrath , '' an adaptation by frank galati of john steinbeck 's novel .


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frank galati was named best director of a play for his work on `` the grapes of wrath , '' an adaptation of the john steinbeck novel .


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`` the grapes of wrath , '' an adaptation by frank galati of the john steinbeck novel about dust bowl okies , beat out august wilson 's `` the piano lesson '' for best play .


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among his better known works were the score for `` the red pony , '' the 1949 movie based on the novel by john steinbeck , and `` lincoln portrait , '' music performed with narration inspired by the writing of carl sandberg .


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other works included the score for `` the red pony , '' the 1949 movie based on the novel by john steinbeck , and `` lincoln portrait , '' music performed with narration inspired by the writings of lincoln biographer carl sandburg .


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national public radio 's `` all things considered `` will broadcast a special feature today to note the 50th anniversary of john steinbeck 's pulitzer prize-winning novel , `` the grapes of wrath . ''


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nominated for best play were `` the piano lesson `` by august wilson , which won the pulitzer prize for drama ; `` lettice and lovage `` by peter shaffer ; `` prelude to a kiss `` by craig lucas , and `` the grapes of wrath , '' an adaptation of the john steinbeck novel by frank galati .


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by the time steppenwolf theatre company unveils its newly revised version of `` the grapes of wrath `` at la jolla playhouse on sunday , nearly $ 1 million will have been spent translating john steinbeck 's 50-year-old pulitzer-prize winning novel about migrant farm workers to the stage .


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the same waters once fed schools of sardines that kept cannery row , made famous by the john steinbeck novel , booming through the first half of the century .


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horace bristol 's photographs of poor itinerant farmers during the california dust bowl years are as poignant as `` the grapes of wrath , '' the john steinbeck novel inspired by the same scenes bristol recorded on film .


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it was no accident that john steinbeck 's `` the grapes of wrath , '' a long novel about impoverished oklahoma farmers trekking to california , selling for $ 2.75 a copy , led the best-seller list in 1939 .


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this is the old pacific biological laboratories , which was to become western biological , otherwise known as `` doc 's lab `` in the john steinbeck novel `` cannery row `` and its sequel , `` sweet thursday . ''


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editor 's note _ many of the stories of the late john steinbeck have become the plot lines for movies , but sometimes the author 's artistry has been lost in the translation .


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a realist in the video age , writer thom steinbeck believes that film offers him the best opportunity to carry on in his famous father 's footsteps .


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the son of the late john steinbeck , one of america 's best-known writers , is one of the founders of a new movie company dedicated to faithfully adapating the works of famous authors , starting with steinbeck .


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sitting in the secluded catskill mountain studio of artist eugene gregan , his film company partner , thom steinbeck explains his plans for steinbeck films inc. `` our concern is with craftsmanship .


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steinbeck spent a lot of time on his work , '' says thom , who frequently refers to his father by the family name .


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following years of struggle to make a living as an author , john steinbeck gained national attention in the early 1930s as a writer who could masterfully depict the plight of the disenfranchised and downtrodden .


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it also was one of the many steinbeck stories adapted for film .


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in 1962 , six years before his death at age 66 , steinbeck was awarded the nobel prize for literature .


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steinbeck 's two sons , thom and john iv , are writers themselves and now partners in the film venture .


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`` we chose steinbeck to work with first because there 've been very few accurate interpretations of his work that have been translated into film , '' thom says .


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`` steinbeck is not like a lot of authors , '' gregan says , `` because he thought visually and wrote visually .


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steinbeck is easy to intepret to film because he saw it that way .


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the company plans to make full-length feature films based on `` travels with charley in search of america , '' steinbeck 's last book , and `` the moon is down , '' a story about nazi occupation of a norwegian town in world war ii .


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`` we want to stay very close to the novel , '' gregan says , `` so that eventually what people can have is a videotape library of john steinbeck 's work. ''


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if translating books to film is so difficult , then why not leave steinbeck 's efforts in their purest form ?


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`` and the only way i can start them to read is by doing accurate interpretations of steinbeck 's work so that they might be enticed to read it. ''


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some of steinbeck 's work that is already on film should n't be duplicated , thom says .


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for the last 2 -lcb- years , the steinbeck brothers and gregan have talked of starting a film company .


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viking penquin inc. has continued to print steinbeck books in hardbound and paperback editions .


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professor ted hayashi , president of the international steinbeck society at ball state university in muncie , ind. , believes there is an ample market worldwide for the films .


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`` whenever somebody makes a film out of steinbeck literature , i want to see it , '' hayashi says , though he concedes that some people have been disappointed in the past when steinbeck stories were adapted for film .


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the logo of the film company is a haunting sketch of the elder steinbeck , done by gregan .


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`` i make money off my father 's name right now , '' he said in a blunt , matter-of-fact tone .


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some , like steinbeck 's joad family , could n't wait .


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a few of them might make it to new york , but the name of the game is to provide lively local theater rather than ready-made exports to broadway .


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now he has written what is being billed as `` a tantalizing thriller. ''


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it 's not the first theater adaptation of the pulitzer prize-winning novel by john steinbeck , but the steppenwolf theater company production at the royal-george theater , which closes oct. 30 , is certainly the most expensive .


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the $ 500,000 project also has the enthusiastic support of elaine steinbeck , the author 's widow .


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the steinbeck estate , after extended negotiations , granted permission .


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how does one boil down a sprawling novel of 30 chapters and nearly 600 pages ?


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steinbeck does a kind of landscape painting .


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`` steinbeck had a remarkable way , and very experimental for its time , of letting scenes take their own natural time , '' galati said .


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`` people in the novel do n't come to conclusions quickly .


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`` i contacted smith , a wonderful chicago composer and folk singer , and gave him sections of the novel that i had condensed into lyrics and asked him to set those lyrics to music which he did over the course of the summer , '' galati says .


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several movies and miniseries are being written for her production company .


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john moffitt and pat tourk lee will produce the awards show , which will be carried by the 10 basic cable networks .


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today 's highlight in history : on nov. 24 , 1963 , in a scene captured on live network television , dallas nightclub owner jack ruby shot and mortally wounded lee harvey oswald as the accused assassin of president john f. kennedy was being escorted by police to an armored truck at the dallas municipal building for transfer to the county jail .


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in 1971 , a hijacker going by the name `` dan cooper '' parachuted from a northwest airlines 727 over washington state with $ 200,000 in ransom .


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writers nationwide have rallied in support of salman rushdie , whose novel has enraged moslems and brought a death sentence from iran 's ayatollah ruhollah khomeini and offers of a $ 5.2 million bounty .


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`` finished this day and i hope it 's good , '' john steinbeck wrote in his journal in 1938 .


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it is also publishing `` working days , '' journals steinbeck kept during the research and writing of what critics consider his greatest work .


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steinbeck scholar robert demott , who edited the journals for publication , notes that the manuscripts strikingly show little revision .


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immediately after its release , newspaper editorials , legislators and farmers decried the novel as a distorted portrait of migrant life .


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the book was burned in several cities , including salinas , calif. , steinbeck 's hometown , and was banned in many libraries and schools .


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eleanor roosevelt defended the book in her weekly column , and in 1940 a congressional committee held hearings in oklahoma to find out whether the squalid conditions and brutal treatment of the workers recounted in the novel were accurate .


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upon steinbeck 's death in 1968 , the new york times wrote the following about the book : `` the timorous and savagely reactionary among us were fretfully afraid that steinbeck had gone too far in his novel 's portrayal of the desperately distressed in america .


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terkel , who toured the midwest in 1987 when family farms were foreclosing one after another , and who witnessed the drought of 1988 played out on the six o'clock news , finds steinbeck 's words startlingly relevant today .


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`` it 's as though we never experienced the depression and had n't learned anything from it , '' said terkel , who planned to mark the anniversary by reading from the novel on his radio show , interspersed with selections from `` dustbowl ballads '' by woody guthrie .


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it also produced a successful movie adaptation starring henry fonda that won director john ford an academy award .


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demott , founder of the steinbeck quarterly and an english professor at ohio university in athens , ohio , says in the preface of `` working days '' that steinbeck 's legacy was `` his willingness to risk everything to write the best he could with what what gifts he had , and in doing so to reveal , unblinking , the enduring human spirit among the ruthless shapes of paradise. ''


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it also prduced a successful movie adaptation starring henry fonda that won director john ford an academy award .


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the city is planning to demolish the hotel cominos , where a young john steinbeck caroused .


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the gray cast- stone and stucco hotel _ with its grand ballroom , marble fireplace , hardwood floors and frosted glass chandeliers with gold leaf trim _ was a center of activity when steinbeck 's hometown had a population of 4,000 .


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`` steinbeck used to go down to the hotel , '' recalled betty brusa , who briefly met him when she was a girl in the 1920s .


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steinbeck , born in salinas in 1902 , moved away to college and went on to win a nobel prize for literature in 1962 , six years before his death .


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a redevelopment plan calls for replacing the hotel with a parking lot , an office building and a steinbeck museum behind a facade depicting the original hotel .


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`` steinbeck was not liked in this town , '' said brusa , president of the monterey county historical society .


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the 19th century novel about an old miser who turns to a more human life through his love of a little girl ranked third 25 years ago , but dropped off the top-10 list in the latest survey .


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jack tinker in the daily mail called the play , adapted from steinbeck 's depression-era , pulitzer prize-winning novel , `` as shatteringly a perfect piece of american theater as you are likely to experience in a lifetime of trans-atlantic travel. ''


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the three-hour play is more faithful to the book than was john ford 's 1940 movie starring henry fonda and jane darwell as tom and ma joad , who lead a community of itinerants westward across the dust bowl to california .


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but , as the school board in eliot , maine , said in rejecting a parental request to ban judy blume 's novel `` forever '' as pornographic : `` ...


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it 's estimated that since johann gutenberg invented the printing press five centuries ago , some 25 million individual books have been written and published , almost a third in the english language .


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circuit judge john e. rochester ordered henry mcqueen , 31 , and isaac mcqueen , 30 , of montgomery to read five novels each , write reports on them and keep a weekly diary on what each is doing with his life and what he 's learned from his experience in the judicial system .


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the judge startled the courtroom when he imposed the novel sentence .


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he loved the film version , starring henry fonda , which was written by nunnally johnson and directed by john ford , all three of them his good friends .


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`` i think john wondered if it would be visual in a theater , '' says elaine steinbeck , the writer 's third wife and most ardent fan .


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`` but the minute steppenwolf asked me , i said `yes , '' ' adds steinbeck 's widow , referring to the chicago theater company that has made a name for itself all over the world with its highly kinetic , freewheeling productions .


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john would say : `the one i 've just finished . '


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mrs. steinbeck , one of broadway 's first female stage managers , worked on such shows as the original `` oklahoma ! ''


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`` john did n't write many women 's parts .


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as a matter of fact , critics used to say , ` steinbeck writes better men than women . '


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during their years together , steinbeck would write every day in longhand , usually after sharpening three - dozen pencils , his widow recalls .


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if he was working on a long book , steinbeck would keep regular hours .


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`` john always said writing letters was like a pitcher warming up .


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`` he loved to think of himself as a journalist , '' mrs. steinbeck says .


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`` when john won the nobel prize , he said , `i do n't know whether i deserve it or not , but i certainly am glad i got it , '' ' she recalls .


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`` i do n't think that john ever got fancy .


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`` grand hotel , '' tommy tune directs a musical based on the vicki baum novel about the goings-on at a posh hotel in post-world war i berlin .


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not only does the play have to compete with the powerful prose of steinbeck 's best novel but with the images of the john ford film version that starred henry fonda as tom joad .


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it 's an extraordinary piece of theater , a stirring ensemble production by chicago 's steppenwolf theater company that rises to and meets the challenge of steinbeck 's epic tale .


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the hero of the evening is director and adapter frank galati who has fashioned a remarkably coherent version of the steinbeck story .


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steinbeck 's novel has a relentless rhythm as the okies push their way west .


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what other critics said : frank rich , the new york times : the production at the cort , an epic achievement for the director , frank galati , and the chicago theater ensemble at his disposal , makes steinbeck live for a new generation not by updating his book but by digging into its timeless heart .


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howard kissel , the daily news : there is something heartening about seeing such a large , deeply committed company engaged in serious work , but what they achieve is something far below steinbeck 's galvanizing vision .


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today 's highlight in history : on april 14 , 1865 , president lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by john wilkes booth while attending the comedy `` our american cousin '' at ford 's theater in washington .


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today 's birthdays : actor sir john gielgud is 86 .


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in accepting his award , galati paid tribute to steinbeck 's widow , elaine , `` and the enduring genius of her husband , john . ''


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in accepting his award , galati paid tribute to steinbeck 's widow , elaine , and his `` enduring genius . ''


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`` were he alive , there would be no louder voice in support for the national endowment for the arts than john steinbeck , '' galati said .


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what counts in terms of box office is the best play award , and the honor should help business at the stage adaptation of john steinbeck 's epic novel about depression-era okies .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

the play , based on the classic john steinbeck novel , will have played 188 performances and 11 previews when it ends its run sept. 2 , said ellen levene .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

other noted pieces included `` fanfare for the common man , '' written in 1942 .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

about three years later , he gave up after two pages of `` music for opera , zenatello , act i. '' his first complete work was a song , `` lola , '' written at age 14 .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

the concerto , written in 1926 , used frequently changing rhythms .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

john steinbeck : a biography by jay parini heinemann , pounds 20,614 pages is it still true , as i suppose , that most people love reading john steinbeck in their teens , yet only rarely return to him in their maturity ?


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was his friend john hersey right when , explaining steinbeck 's astronomical sales , he said , 'readers loved him .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

even people who really did read books read steinbeck ' ?


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

the virtue of this long but readable book is that jay parini , by achieving an excellent balance between biography and literary appreciation - always a difficult task - makes a strong case for the quality of steinbeck 's work in the course of a well-told life story .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

the 1930s may have been the period when the american novel went political but steinbeck , an instinctive new deal democrat rather than a radical sophisticate , always knew that realism was , in his words , 'a dead end for the novel ' .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

as parini points out , this philosophy is not so far from jung 's collective unconscious , and it is particularly interesting to find that one of steinbeck 's close friends in pre-war monterey was joseph campbell , later to become america 's most influential mythologist .


Question: name a novel written by john steinbeck .

-lrb- this california group of 'whores , scientists , bums , winos and local artists ' included steinbeck 's best friend , the marine biologist ed ricketts , george albee and john cage , as well as campbell , who had an affair with carol steinbeck which may have contributed to the eventual divorce . -rrb-