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Nixon trounced Senator George McGovern that fall, capturing nearly 61% of the vote. Then, after one last spasm of belligerence in the carpet bombing of Hanoi at Christmas, Nixon announced in January 1973, "We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor to Vietnam...
...schoolteacher mother and carpet-salesman-turned-artist father, Grant graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English. After a stint in repertory ("I was bored playing the tree that waved in the wind and the fourth angry peasant"), he wrote and performed in satirical revues. Grant's drollness led James Ivory to cast him in Maurice, the director's adaptation of E.M. Forster's somber novel about homosexual lovers. Ivory had wanted to bring a dash of humor to the film, and he thought Grant could provide it. Maurice was Grant's first major film role...
...economy develops some self-generating momentum. There are signs that this is beginning. As production recovers, people who have held on to well-paying jobs get over their fear that they too will be laid off and decide they can now buy that dishwasher or wall-to-wall carpet; their purchasing pushes the advance further. Then, as sales rise and companies need more production, firms that have got their costs down and their profits rising smartly begin at last to hire more people at better wages...
...movie's opening is promising--using the same computer animation techniques that made "Aladdin'"s magic carpet-ride sequences so impressive, the "camera" follows the flight of a bird, zooming and swooping in toward an animated Paris. This perspective is realistic enough to make the viewer slightly queasy, but, sadly, seems to have eaten up most of the film's budget--the rest of the movie is nowhere near as technically advanced. The backgrounds are largely static, with the animated characters looking out of place moving over them, as is especially evident in the musical number "Thumbelina" which introduces...
...fair or not, there is clearly a physical change in a politician who cemented his power in 1991 by boldly scrambling atop a tank outside the besieged White House. These days Yeltsin appears increasingly lugubrious; the spring is missing from his step when he shuffles down the long red carpet at the Kremlin, and there are embarrassing pauses when he answers off-the-cuff questions. These subtle signs only heighten the sense, already gaining credence in Moscow from Yeltsin's political struggles, that the President is slipping...