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Rarely have cast and characters seemed so ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Moody Swirl of Dickens: BLEAK HOUSE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...would openly look to the West for trade and inspiration. Today, 800,000 Yugoslavs live in Western Europe, mostly West Germany, as guest workers, while their countrymen are also free to travel to the West, and openly aspire to a Western style of living. Says Zoran Mandic, 23, a clerk in a Belgrade bookstore: "Compared to the Bulgarians and the Poles, I am doing very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Other Heresies: Hungary | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...fund-drive board includes the town's fire chief, town clerk, librarian and a few other regular folks. Republican Conte was a friend of Rockwell's and helped get a stop sign put up so cars would not screech out into the street in front of Rockwell's place, causing the artist to fear that an auto might crash into his studio. Rockwell wanted to paint Conte, but the Congressman never found time, and the artist died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Rockwell Was Wonderful | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...advised them, "Forget fair." He thinks that accenting fairness is a sure way to make newspapers "a gray morass of innocuous inanity." Not long ago, his paper, which is home owned in a city of 30,000, reported a crime in a convenience store. Two men forced the night clerk to open the till and then raped her. The paper reported the store's name and its location but not the victim's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: The Trouble with Being Fair | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...third Tuesday night of each month, the Cuba News pages are put on the 11:55 bus and transported to Cortez, Colo., where the printer picks them up. Harriet will not stay up to meet the 11:55 bus anymore, so the women take the pages to a clerk at a local convenience store who gives them to the bus driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: A Local Voice | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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