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<text id=94TT0311>
<title>
Mar. 21, 1994: Died:Melina Mercouri
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
Mar. 21, 1994 Hard Times For Hillary
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 26
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<p> DIED. MELINA MERCOURI, 70-ish, actress and activist; of lung
cancer; in New York City. Tens of thousands of Greeks surged
into the streets of Athens last week as the body of "the last
Greek goddess" was returned to her native soil. Mercouri became
an instant international star in 1960 with her Cannes-winning,
Oscar-nominated portrait of a life-embracing prostitute who
observed a scrupulous professional moratorium: Never on Sunday.
The film was directed by a refugee from America's McCarthy era,
Jules Dassin, who later became Mercouri's husband. An ardent
foe of the right-wing junta that ruled her country from 1967
to 1974, Mercouri was named Culture Minister in 1981 when her
friend Andreas Papandreou took the reins of government. In that
capacity, Mercouri promoted a revival of classic Greek culture,
highlighted by her relentless but unsuccessful campaign to demand
the return of the friezes and statuary of the Parthenon, known
as the Elgin marbles, which still reside in the British Museum.
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