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...expect to see So Fine offered in Eng 12b next semester, though; classical elements do not necessarily make a classic comedy, and So Fine is far from great humor. Too often the slapstick scenes flop for simple lack of originality. Clumsy gunmen run into nuns carrying food; when a tryst is interrupted by the return of the jealous husband, the young lover hides (you guessed it) under the bed; and the final chase scene takes place on-and off-stage during a performance of Verdi's Otello. To be fair, Bergman usually knows how cliched his situations...
...opportunities for women, Kate ponders both the stunted lives of the old girlfriends who stayed behind and the possibility that the freedom from early pressure made her own success easier for her. As this mud dle deepens, Drabble's vision expands to include a London equally confused. Eng land is a tight little island no longer...
...From 1975 through 1979, consumer prices in that booming island republic rose by only 3% a year. How was this possible? Through balanced budgets, cautions monetary policy and an enforced saving program that soaks about 30% of the nation's wage bill for capital spending. Explains Economist Pang Eng Fong: "There's a very Confucianist philosophy of government here that saving is good and spending...
...Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you," said that great American philosopher Mae West. But it is the Eng lish who have a unique talent for scribbling to themselves. To the long list that includes Samuel Pepys, James Boswell and Virginia Woolf must now be added the name of Cecil Beaton, who died last month at 76. For half a century he roamed the halls of fashion and fame with a folding Kodak and an acidulous...
Bass Player John McVie and Drummer Mick Fleetwood provide sonic propulsion as Buckingham's melodies range widely and easily between old English folk and avant-garde pop. The sound sometimes flirts with the sort of revisions of Eng lish folk idiom that Fairport Convention used to bring off with such foursquare inspiration, and sometimes, as in the title cut, skirts the sonic experiments conducted by Lennon and McCartney on songs like Revolution...