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- <title>
- Mar. 21, 1994: Died:Melina Mercouri
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Mar. 21, 1994 Hard Times For Hillary
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- <article>
- <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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