Word: death
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...surprisingly, notoriously solipsistic Manhattanites adored it. But despite its limited scope--Manhattan and its subsidiary, the Hamptons--Metropolitan supercedes regionalism and parochialism. This finely crafted film is sweetly anachronistic in an age of high-tech and high budget movies. It is a delightfully literate and sincere exploration of the death of the self-styled American aristocracy...
...lifestyle of the leisure set might also strike some as pretentious. The film at times seems to be self-satirizing, but the wit in Metropolitan is rarely meanspirited enough to be satirical. But Stillman, who directed, produced and wrote the work, saves the film from a sure, sudden death by carefully drawing characters who communicate through precariously graceful dialogue...
Rappaport favors the death penalty, rules out any new taxes and favors a cut in the capital gains tax. He co-chaired the Citizens for Limited Taxation dinner...
...Sudden Death...
...services on the brink of financial collapse. Although he says he would seek to delay the CLT petition's implementation as governor, Weld's position reveals too much of antigovernment Ronald Reagan and not enough of his Yale counterpart. We are also disappointed by his staunch support of the death penalty--a position he shares with Pierce and Democratic candidate Frank Bellotti...