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...serious issue, gods know, but Leconte keeps the film racing along like a Preston Sturges comedy. Aside from being a tribute to the liberality of the French judicial system (at least on free-speech matters), It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks is the briskest, most hilarious and, in its subversive way, most inspiring film so far at Cannes...
...cultural resonance. The U.S. Postal Service does not put living Americans on stamps, and so when an icon dies, their arrival on a stamp signals a kind of American enshrinement for their place in history. Last year's issue of a Ronald Reagan stamp saw some of the briskest sales in postal history, and no doubt when Bill Clinton passes on in the future there will be a debate about how to portray his likeness - just as there was over the Richard Nixon stamp...
Americans bought cars and trucks at an annual rate of 14 million units in the first half of 1993, the briskest pace in four years. The recovery continued in the first 10 days of July, car companies reported last week, as sales of North American-made vehicles rose 14.6% over the same period a year ago. Virtually all the first-half gains were by U.S. manufacturers, who have raised their domestic market share from 72.5% last January to 75% today, while the Japanese have slipped from 24.6% to 22.7%. "At the moment, the Big Three are eating the Japanese carmakers...
...month at an annual rate of 1.6 million units, dashed hopes that a major housing boom might be at hand. Such a surge had seemed pos sible just a month ago on the strength of news that February home starts were at a 2.2 million annual pace, the briskest in eleven years...
...regimental ball, which seems to be the briskest, and perhaps the most arduous, campaign that this outfit was ever engaged in, Millington makes an unsuccessful pass at Mrs. Marjorie Hasseltine (Elizabeth Shepherd), who has a sub rosa reputation for being a courtesan among young subalterns. She charges him with attacking her, and a regimental court-martial is convened...