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...features are too aristocratic. Above all, he cannot uncork the character's volcanic ego. The violent fits and howls are all there, yet feel calculated. Lange gives Blanche an initial strength that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid as her sister Stella, and Timothy Carhart, woefully miscast but game as the amiable lug Blanche beguiles. The real fault lies with director Gregory Mosher, who achieves...
...very angry." Once again the Daily Mail had the scoop, confirming that Fergie had been quietly pressing for a split since November. The paper also reported that two weeks ago the Queen received her daughter-in-law at a "private lunch" in a last-ditch effort to avert a breakup. "A private lunch with the Queen is supposed to remain private, not pitch up in the papers," fumed a palace official. The condemnation of Fergie as unsuitable was a social death sentence...
Then came Gorbachev, glasnost, democratization and their natural consequence: the collapse of the Soviet state. We in the West have tended to underestimate the economic factor in the breakup of the U.S.S.R. We saw Balts, Georgians and Ukrainians venting their hatred of Russia and wrenching free of those notorious Russian-dominated institutions of repression -- the Communist Party, the KGB, the Soviet army...
...that are rapidly pushing Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan toward all-out war. Over the past four years the two republics have pressed their territorial claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, a 1,700-sq.-mi. piece of turf located within Azerbaijan's boundaries but home mainly to Armenians. Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan held the upper hand, owing to military support from units of the now disintegrating Seventh Army. The embattled Armenians enjoyed sympathy from many of Moscow's liberals and democrats, who disliked the collusion between Azerbaijan and Kremlin hard-liners...
...late 1987, not long after Myerson emerged as the firm's key partner, Finley collapsed into bankruptcy amid power clashes, soaring salaries and strangling debt. In his vengeful 1990 book, Conduct Unbecoming, former partner Steven Kumble tags Myerson as the main culprit in the breakup, partly because he squandered money. "Harvey is a compulsive spender, and to some degree he can't control it," explains Kumble. Myerson was equally obsessed with his looks. "Harvey had a series of toupees, of different lengths, that looked like old Knute Rockne football helmets," Kumble recalls. "He'd keep changing them and then...