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SEIZE THE DAY (PBS). Robin Williams gave his finest dramatic performance (and Jerry Stiller offered splendid support) in an intense, well-tuned adaptation of Saul Bellow's short novel...
...CHILD IN TIME by Ian McEwan. This story about a girl kidnaped from a supermarket checkout bridges the gap between private anguish and public policy in contemporary England. A masterly work by one of Britain's finest young writers...
Babbitt's finest achievement as Governor was his passage of landmark legislation to protect the lifeblood of Arizona's rapid economic growth: its scarce underground water. This came only after a dramatic charade in which Babbitt enlisted Cecil Andrus, then Secretary of the Interior. The two agreed that Andrus would threaten to cut funding for a major water project dear to powerful economic interests in Arizona unless the state managed its groundwater better. "I went home and called him an overreaching federal hypocrite," Babbitt recalls with a grin. Then, having immersed himself in the arcana of water management, Babbitt mediated...
...student, Gorbachev received some practical training in oratory. That, plus a natural flair for speaking, has produced a man who is considered the finest orator of any Soviet leader since Lenin (who was also trained as a lawyer). Gorbachev's phraseology is not remarkable, or at least does not read well in translation. The English version of Perestroika, published in the U.S. just before the December summit, is blandly general. But in a Gorbachev speech, as TV viewers around the world have discovered, phrases that seem flat on the printed page suddenly come to life...
Director John Huston goes out in style with a simple, masterly adaptation of James Joyce' s The Dead. -- The year' s finest films...