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Brideshead Revisited (PBS). Faithful, sometimes to a fault, to Evelyn Waugh's most popular novel, this visually ravishing series offered a lovely elegy to a time that never was. Eleven episodes that warmed an Anglophile's winter...
...really the state's fault for having the law. Written centuries ago at a time when Cambridge's churches really were community leaders, there was some logic, albeit unconstitutional logic, in giving them a say in which restaurants could serve liquor. But now that the twentieth century has arrived, it seems odd for the churches to have continued to invoke their power under...
There are other reasons why Reagan frequently does not hear straight arguments from his aides. An avuncular figure, warm and generous to a fault, Reagan projects a peculiar quality of vulnerability. The White House staff and Cabinet members worry deeply when they have to tell the boss he is in trouble. One aide fretted for hours about the glum presentation that he was to make at one budget session. "I finally said the hell with it," he reports. "I decided if I couldn't tell it to him straight, I shouldn't be working here." Reagan was not visibly affected...
...fault, perhaps, should not lie with the actors--for each possesses a certain degree of talent. Director Kevin Jennings simply does not allot the performers a sphere of sufficient directional interpretation in which to act well, nor a set on which to act well...
Even President Reagan himself has rejected that interpretation in the past. Seeking to explain why his Administration could not reduce the jobless rate, the President earlier this year blamed structural unemployment--a workforce which, through no fault of its own, is uneqiupped to meet the needs of a changing market. Last week's proposal also seems thoroughly inconsistent with the President's view of taxation, the very process which Reagan has called burdensome to the economy as a whole...