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The looming capital shortage poses a long-range threat to the survival of the nation's economic system. More immediately, it raises doubts about the economy's ability to recover with vigor from the postwar era's most severe recession and push unemployment down to about 5...
This does not mean that all of the country's 23,000 nursing homes are bad. A number of them scattered throughout the country are, by any standards, excellent. Others provide their patients with at least good, competent care. They come in all sizes, under highly diverse sponsorship. Members...
¶ In France, BSN, a giant glass company, has a committee of 30 workers (representing 14,000) who meet once a month with management to discuss a broad range of subjects: more flexible working hours, altering certain retirement plans. At the Renault auto company, Mitbestimmung translates as "job enrichment": Renault...
Most important of all, Hedda's self-hatred translates into a destructive hatred of others-her academic clod of a husband, George Tesman (Peter Eyre), for example, and her onetime lover, the writer Eilert Luvborg (Patrick Stewart). Her wrath stems from the fact that she has betrayed her own...
As to flaws, Ullmann has a thin voice with a narrow, monotonous range. In a Bergman film, with its still, deep pauses, this is not immediately apparent, but onstage it becomes a cumulative irritant. Ullmann's English is good, but not quite good enough. Taking the skylark and "little...