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...tense appearance at Bonn's spacious, glass-enclosed parliament building, a grave-looking Chancellor went before the Bundestag to announce the breakup of the coalition and to call for new elections. Said Schmidt: "In the interest of our country, in the interest of our parliamentary democracy, I cannot and will not stand by and watch the effectiveness and standing of the government being wrecked." Conceding that his party "could lose some feathers" in an election, he declared, "I am convinced that the electorate will understand and prefer this course...
Just as typically fraught with inflamed sensibility are Ingrid Bergman's narration (My Story) of her long, racking breakup with Roberto Rossellini and Joan Fontaine's accounts (No Bed of Roses) of alienation from her mother and estrangement from her sister Olivia de Havilland. Writes Fontaine of the sad encounter that followed Olivia's winning of the 1946 Academy Award for Best Actress: "After Olivia delivered her acceptance speech and entered the wings, I, standing close by, went over to congratulate her ... She took one look at me, ignored my outstretched hand, clutched her Oscar...
Bodily Harm takes such complexities further, building an entire story line on the freelancer Rennie's gap between outer confidence and inner decimation. Her fluffy but well-ordered life having suddenly exploded in a partial mastectomy, a breakup with the man she lives with and subsequently a death threat. Rennie successfully wheedles her editor into sending her to write a travel piece on St. Antoine, an obscure Caribbean island. The Caribbean sun is soothing, but the islanders are fomenting revolution; and the steadily more surreal chain of events that lands Rennie in a tropical jail teaches her only...
...most pressing issue for consumers is the future of phone rates. The breakup of AT&T into separate corporate entities, one for local calls and one for long-distance ones, will effectively undermine AT&T's traditional practice of charging premium prices for long-distance service in order to hold down the cost of local calls. This internal subsidy system has worked remarkably well over the years. Though inflation has pushed up overall consumer prices in the U.S. by nearly 130% in the past ten years, the cost of local telephone service has risen by only 51.7%. In fact...
...really important question raised by the breakup of AT&T, of course, is whether it will undermine or enhance the quality of American tele phone service. That is something that no one can know for sure until the divestiture takes place and telephone users across the country actually experience the results. Yet there is good reason to be optimistic...