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...sisters Rosensweig have gathered in London for the 54th birthday of the eldest sister, Sara Goode, a London banker. Gorgeous Teitelbaum, a radio talk show host and housewife, is leading the Newton Temple Beth-El Sisterhood on a tour of London. The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, is a travel writer just in from Bombay. Also attending the birthday dinner are Sara's rebellious cliche of a daughter Tess, Tess' improbable Lithuanian resistance fighter boyfriend Tom, and Pfeni's bisexual boyfriend Geoffrey. A stuffed shirt Englishperson makes a brief appearance but he is mainly there as contrast to Mervyn, the lovable faux...
Mariette Hartley is excellent as Sara, a nice Jewish girl from New York who went to Radcliffe and became a prominent international banker at a time when nice Jewish girls weren't supposed to do such things. Hartley succeeds in making real both Sara's public front and the inner worries that she is reluctant to display even to her sisters. Sara is a difficult part to play--she is both the most restrained of all the characters and the most important of them. Hartley keeps Sara on an even keel, displaying small flashes of humor without losing the essential...
...obvious from the moment he walks in that Mervyn, the haimish furrier, will hook up with Sara, the assimilated banker. Charles Cioffi makes it all seem logical, however, and even manages to get through a tortured scene involving the Concert of Europe without seeming too much of a cliche. Richard Frank walks a similarly thin line as Geoffrey, the bisexual director who proclaims that "love is love, gender is merely spare parts." Frank, entertainingly gay (no pun intended) as he and McMurtrey cavort around the house, is also capable of pulling off quite serious moments in the second...
...order to underwrite its bonds, Harvard has used various investment bankers--mostly Banker's Trust and Goldman Sachs, although the University can use any other firm that offers it a better deal...
...long ago, means testing was a notion embraced mostly by small political journals and policy wonks swimming in think tanks. But respectability came as the bipartisan cut-the-deficit Concord Coalition and investment banker Pete Peterson pushed schemes that would trim federal subsidies in gradual steps for families earning above about $40,000 a year. The new mood is reflected by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who declared recently, "Means testing in selected areas is an idea whose time has come...