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...ABEL GANCE...
...form can duplicate the size and scope of historical film epics. They conjure the grandeur, the spectacle, the very movieness of movies. For the French director Abel Gance, one giant screen was not enough for the story of the little Corsican corporal. Gance used a three-screen process to create mammoth murals of battles, political rallies and snowball fights, as Napoleon (Albert Dieudonné) conquers Europe...
Faint praise, perhaps, at a time when network mini-series have sunk to the soap-opera drivel of North and South and Kane & Abel. But Bleak House is also a step above the general run of tony, tasteful and sometimes tedious British drawing-room dramas that arrive regularly on these shores. There is, for one thing, scarcely a drawing room to be found. The beautifully detailed production moves with ease from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums...
Gorbachev is extending experiments to give selected industrial and farm managers slightly greater freedom in pricing and production decisions. His closest economic adviser, Abel Aganbegyan, has called for a reallocation of investments to modernize factories rather than build new ones and to improve the quality of products. But this rechanneling is to be carried out by the central planners. So, as Gorbachev suggested in his August interview with TIME, his program rather contradictorily appears to call for a loosening of state control in some areas and a tightening in others--at the same time...
...Staff writer Jonathan P. Abel can be reached at abel@fas.harvard.edu...