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...might intermesh -- but never with the coarse ideological reductiveness of argument so common in America nowadays. Said's theme is how the three big realities of empire -- imperialism, "native" resistance, decolonization -- helped shape, in particular, the English and French novel. Culture and Imperialism includes brilliant readings of Conrad, Kipling, Camus, Yeats and other writers. It has been extolled by such critics as Camille Paglia and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and roundly damned by others, especially English ones, who fixated on Said's suggestion that an awareness of Caribbean slavery ran under the ironic tranquillity of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park...
...members in 23 states during the past two months. Burson's goal was to drum up as much grass-roots outrage about the BTU tax as possible and direct it at the swing Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, including David Boren of Oklahoma, Max Baucus of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, John Breaux of Louisiana and Thomas Daschle of South Dakota. The goal was to win at least one Democratic vote; that would be enough to stop the tax in the Finance Committee, where the Democrats hold an 11-9 majority...
When the soft-spoken Boren opposes something, people listen. Senators James Exon and Bob Kerrey, both Democrats from Nebraska, said they backed the "basic thrust" of his plan. Still, a number of putative dissidents -- notably John Breaux of Louisiana and Kent Conrad of North Dakota -- declined to sign on to the amendment. Thus while Boren may be able to muster enough Democratic votes to join with Republicans in forcing Clinton to change his plan, there is little chance that the Boren-Danforth proposal can pass. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "The Boren...
...Arriflex. The movie blends clips from Hollywood's wondrous black-and-white era with reflections by such modern masters as Michael Chapman ("A cinematographer's job is to tell people where to look"), Allen Daviau ("What's important are the lights that you don't turn on") and Conrad Hall ("There's a language far more complex than words"). If only the vast movie audience could find this film -- it would teach them not just to look at the actors and listen to the words...
...Thursday, virtuoso prole-impersonators such as Norman Mailer and actor Danny Aiello were out in force. The situation reached a new level of hysteria Friday, when the cover of the Post was taken up by "an open letter to the judge deciding our fate." The missive begged Judge Francis Conrad to rescue the paper and, indeed, the civilized world from the "madman...