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...issue was the Chirac Cabinet's proposed decree calling for the gradual denationalization of 65 large, state-owned companies and banks, including the Elf Aquitaine oil trust, the Banque Nationale de Paris, the country's largest, and the telecommunications giant Compagnie Generale d'Electricite. The privatization plan involves enterprises worth about $40 billion...
...more classical Secret Santa present, Janet Korins '88 was led to the Lowell House high table one night where she was fed grapes by a togaed elf. "I was embarrassed, but I though it was a riot," she says, adding that friends were snapping pictures...
...ignore that. But speaking of tired concepts, how about SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE (Sack Copley)? Dudley Moore plays the Elf who wanted to sell out Santa, and John Lithgow is the evil Toy Manufacturer who wants to get the goods before they hit the sleigh route. Moore and Lithgow put in some agile performances, but the lines just aren't there--not even Moore and Lithgow can improv their way through this debacle...
...MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST. Holly Hunter, a strumpet-elf in tap shoes, walks onstage and twirls a rifle to the Star-Spangled Banner. Neither she nor Author Beth Henley misfires in this small-town carnival of a comedy...
...eyebrows started moving con brio. Afterward the Speaker confessed that he had a private rehearsal at home, with his grandchildren prompting "Pop-Pop" whenever he flubbed a line. "It's been 30 years since I've read the poem," he twinkled in his best jolly-old-elf style. Is O'Neill perchance contemplating a stage career when he retires in 1986? "Naw," says the Speaker, "I think I'll just do a little teaching...