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Museum attendant Shaun Bennet said initiation fees for the new union will be $30 higher than those for Local 254. Bennet and Johnson also expressed concern that security guards might want to work in the museums and take away museum guard hours...
Despite their differences, Bennet was confident that all the guards could work together to negotiate a new contract...
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...
...made the book seem subversive when it was first published 183 years ago. For underlying Austen's comedy of manners is a sometimes grim drama about preserving a life-style in a world in which a woman's economic status was dependent on the brilliance of her marriage. The Bennet girls travel in polite society, but they are not as well off as the company they are trying to keep, a point they are not allowed to forget, thanks to the endless derision of people like the snobbish Miss Bingley, played with amusing bite by Anna Chancellor...
...perhaps the most visionary of all prominent politicians (a truism no matter how one might feel about his particular politics), makes headlines by bashing TV talk shows for destroying the moral fabric of America while Bob Dole cashes in with a calculated and highly successful attack on Hollywood. Bill Bennet, the conservative author of The Book of Virtues recently observed that Colin Powell would be a good president for America, not because his views coincide with Bennett's (they don't), but because he more than any other candidate would be able to make use of the bully pulpit...