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...PERSUASION and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The first of these Jane Austen adaptations is reserved, the second more bustling. But both have heroines (played impeccably by Amanda Root and Emma Thompson) who tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is rewarded too: by subtle ensemble acting, writing that understands the void that tactful conversation fills, direction (by Roger Michell and Ang Lee, respectively) that finds the hidden hungers of the cautious soul. Honorable mention to Clueless, the Emma of Beverly Hills High...
...Share Her Bed," or that she's been "Dibbs" and "Squidgy" to a succession of aristocratic hunks. It's not even her claustrophobic, body-centered life-style, divided as it is between colonic irrigations and workouts and the endless trying on of clothes. The problem with Di, and the root of the British royalty's entire crisis, is that the only honest description of her occupation would have to be "hired womb...
...Then too he brought a stirring message about putting aside the hatred between Catholics and Protestants that over the years has caused the violent death of some 3,000. Clinton made a promise. "To all of you who asked me to do what I could to help peace take root, I pledge you America's support," he said. "We will stand with you as you take risks for peace...
Given Wattenberg's unabashedly conservative positions on many issues--trying to eliminate the root causes of crime does not work, distributing condoms in the schools is wrong--one wonders why he has remained a Democrat as long as he has. He hints at the answer: "As fate had it, I had accumulated some small amount of influence in the ongoing Democratic dialogue. That was not something to squander." The result is a book that reads like a cynical proposal to land a big fat political consulting contract for the '96 election--and any candidate who heeds his words will...
...Izetbegovic. The resignation of Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey suggested that tensions had grown within the Bosnian delegation. To escape the pressure, the Croatians flocked to the wide-screen TV in Packie's, a sports bar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where they could watch the Chicago Bulls and root for the star Croatian forward, Toni Kukoc. "They are all sick of the confinement and the artificiality of it," said an American official...