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Metropolitan thoughtfully treats the the (at best) self-conscious and (at worst) self-absorbed mindset of the preppy class. The characters are not the flat stereotypes who populate bad teen films, but realistic characters with a painful sense of the past and their responsibility to it. They discuss French social theorists and Jane Austen, changing social mores and downward socially mobility. They still fancy virginity as something virtuous, and date in groups...
Bush's mission was on behalf of America's domestic oil producers. But as a net importer, America has an overall national interest in paying as little as possible for oil. The oil price-fixing cartel is in flat violation of U.S. antitrust laws. American oil producers are, in effect, auxiliary members. If the OPEC ministers met in Houston, they could be arrested on the spot. Perhaps the fact that they meet in foreign countries makes them immune from our law, but it should not make them immune from our contempt. And American soldiers should not die in the desert...
...standards, which helped bring on a credit crunch earlier this year. Homebuilding, a key barometer of economic health, sank to a meager annual rate of 1.18 million units in June, the lowest level since 1982. Although rising consumer spending kept the expansion rolling during the 1980s, consumer outlays were flat in the first half of this year as cautious Americans trimmed back their buying...
That huge transfer of wealth does not sit well with Northeasterners, who face a gloomy future because of cutbacks in the defense, financial and high- tech industries. Retail sales in New England are flat or falling. In the five-month period ending last May, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost 15,000 private-industry jobs, their first drop in such employment since 1982. Economists believe a lasting increase in oil prices would hit the area hard. "It would deepen and prolong the downturn here," says Wayne Ayers, chief economist for the Bank of Boston...
This handsome, volcanically violent road movie is Lynch's first flat-out comedy; he and his ensemble (including Diane Ladd and Crispin Glover) work at high pitch and have a swell time at it. Wild at Heart is also the first Lynch film in which his motives -- to hang a haberdashery of bizarre incidents on the merest hook of plot -- are apparent. You might go, "Ick!" but you won't ask, "Huh?" What's lacking is the old sense of delicious, disturbing mystery. Wild at Heart reveals a master of movie style on his way to becoming a mannerist...