Word: bbc
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Lavish and piquant as a mini-series should be, this co-production of A&E and the BBC never misses a note of Austen's arch comic tone, following her narrative faithfully as the Bennet family sets about finding wealthy husbands for its five unattached daughters. Production values are first rate, with gardens and parlors so meticulously observed they could make Merchant and Ivory give up and turn to Die Hard sequels. And yet, amid the tastefulness, sexual tension lurks. Colin Firth plays Mr. Darcy, the romantic lead, as though he were a creation of the Brontes rather than...
...thing, given her three sessions a week with a world-renowned feminist therapist, is that she doesn't seem to grasp how thoroughly dehumanizing the princess business really is. Her interview on bbc last month was full of husky-voiced self-pity and dewy gazes from a coquettishly down-tucked head. But there wasn't the slightest awareness that her problems go beyond an adulterous husband and an emotionally disabled mother-in-law. She even seems to think the reason Charles dislikes her is that she outshines him at what she calls their "work," meaning presumably the daily round...
...CATHERINE OF ARAGON had had access to television, the Church of England might never have been created. Even without the media, however, Princess Diana might have been more than a match for old King Henry. In last week's frank one-hour interview on the bbc, she delivered as penetrating a kick to the crown jewels as any woman in history. It's not simply that the estranged wife of a future King appeared poised, gentle and articulate (albeit she said albeit five times in half an hour); it's not that she failed to come off as the loony...
...someone who claimed she "never encouraged the media," we can only assume, then, that Diana was tricked into giving this blockbuster television interview, and must have been surprised to find herself in front of BBC reporter Martin Bashir, the guest star on what turned into "The Martin Bashir Show," with more than 21.5 million British citizens in the audience...
...BBC interview, Karadzic went so far as to say he would go to Paris for the formal signing of the peace accord, a comment which prompted this rejoinder from assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke: "If they set foot in Paris, or for that matter in any European or American country, they will be arrested...