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...Brits don't like to invent solutions. They prefer to muddle through to one. This one took a few centuries, but they managed it: take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed...
...commoners will be allowed to sit in the lower houses, in this case meaning the House of Representatives and the Senate. No celebrities permitted. As soon as a person achieved that rank, he would, like a commoner become a peer in Britain, be sentenced to life in the upper chamber and oblivion...
...prove that the trust exists. If he failed, Blay- + Miezah told the investor, the authorities could shoot him. Hajduk would like the Ghanaians to take Blay-Miezah up on his offer. Should Blay-Miezah prove to be a liar, says Hajduk, "I'll put the bullets in the chamber myself." A number of other overeager investors may share that sentiment...
...interim, however, Rudolph seems to have mislaid his sense of humor, and Trouble in Mind is a walk on the dour side. The locale is "RainCity" (which is not going to please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld...
Last week Wallace's wheelchair was pushed into the old state house of representatives chamber. Fighting tears, Wallace spoke in a thin, pained voice. He talked about the Wallace era, about the long transit that Alabama made from the Depression to the Sunbelt. Wallace glancingly compared himself to Peter the Great and the apostle Paul. He announced that, at age 66, he will not run again for Governor. The long drama of his career will end. And so, symbolically, will...