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...entire production was a bit too cheery for the source material, stories that critique society, relationships, wealth and pretentiousness. Not Much Fun is too kindhearted to fully recreate the sparkling wit and bitter undertones which make Parker's stories so memorable. Instead of allowing the lines in each scene to build up toward a devastatingly ironic conclusion, the show went for more regular laughs. In most scenes, this broader comic approach didn't seem to ring true with the sharp and often sarcastic dialogue...
ZAGREB: Facing pressure from foreign governments and human rights groups, Croatia announced it will annul its law permitting citizens to move into Serb-owned homes in the southern part of the country. Although the government says this will finally settle the bitter property dispute which has raged between Croats and Serbs since the area was recaptured by the government in 1995, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer says the decree is not likely to change anything. "The Croatian government has in the past habit to promise a lot under Western pressure but not really do it. The way they have blocked Serbs...
...changes will not be overwhelming. This has been the most beautiful spring most people can ever remember, and in the dazzling sunshine the British electorate voted Labour into overwhelming power precisely because they knew it would be change without revolution. It was a happy vote, not a bitter one. The overwhelming sentiment was "Time for a change." This decisively outbalanced the "feel-good factor" produced by the fact that the country has the strongest economy in Europe--its best in 50 years--and most people have never earned so much...
...charge rarely knew the worth of these cartoons, artistically or financially. Even Walt, in his later years, was blinkered. The genius-boss, who in 1934 had dazzled his staff for four hours laying out his vision for Snow White, turned bitter and vindictive after a 1940 strike at the studio. Disney now coveted real estate; bored with putting fantasy kingdoms into films, he wanted to put one in Anaheim, Calif. And he thought so little of the cels (the precious units of any animated film) that he gave them away to visitors when Disneyland opened...
...recruiter's wife says she was told by the top enlisted man in the Syracuse office that "if I pursue this case, my husband will go to the Army's Leavenworth Penitentiary and I won't get any child support." The experience has left her bitter. "Yes, I'm angry at my husband," she says, "but I'm as angry at his commanders, because they didn't do anything...