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TIRED AND ILL WITH PROSTATE CANcer, Francois Mitterrand sat silently in a Louis XV armchair at the Elysee Palace, watching election returns. Was it only a dozen years ago that a vigorous Mitterrand, newly elected as France's Socialist President, marched solemnly up the steps of the Pantheon and placed red roses on the tombs of three leftist heroes while the streets of Paris rang with victory celebrations? Now as the results of last week's parliamentary vote flickered across the TV screen, the numbers confirmed what all had suspected: the Socialist era was over in France. Mitterrand's party...
Today's home shopping networks could blossom into video malls stocked with & the latest from Victoria's Secret, Toys "R" Us and the Gap. Armchair shoppers could browse with their remote controls, see video displays of the products that interest them, and charge these items on their credit cards with the press of a button - a convenience that will empower some folks and surely bankrupt others...
...that because the recession went on longer than was anticipated, the short-term deficit is considerably bigger than anyone thought it was six or seven months ago. (Mrs. Clinton enters the room and sits in an armchair next to the President-elect.) The second thing that happened on this deficit is that in the out years -- that is 1997, 1998 and beyond -- it also looks bigger than they originally thought, given the assumptions on health care. Now I think we can fix a lot of that. People know it took 12 years to get into this trough...
...section called "Armchair Comparativism," Clark discussed the flaws in many well-publicized comparisons between American and Japanese lawyer populations...
...photographs of Barnes show a darkly brooding, almost Mephistophelean presence. He is in real life, taller and blonder than one would ever dare imagine, inhabiting a room effortlessly and completely. He is neither tweedy like Michael Holroyd nor dandiacal like Tom Wolfe and sits coiled in a too-small armchair. His presence is gently mocking. We tacitly acknowledge the irony which is inherent in the enterprise of claiming privacy, even while performing the ancillary activities which accompany literary success...