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...limited release of Lady Jane, a two and a half-hour historical epic featuring a slightly embellished version of the events surrounding the girl-queen's life and death. Brimming with Renaissance cantatas sung by an invisible chorus, elegantly outfitted noble lords and ladies, broad, sweeping shots of the glorious English countryside, meticulously reconstructed regal interiors and a heavy dose of iconographical pageantry, Lady Jane would seem more at home in the context of such decade-old films as A Man for All Seasons and Anne of a Thousand Days than among the current crop of long-playing MTV music...
What Reagan's State of the Union speech showed Tuesday night is that his program is not simply an effort to recapture a glorious past; it aims rather to engender a calculated forgetting--a forgetting of those people we are least likely to remember...
...museum was built in the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan, which was first finished in 1666, burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 and left largely unoccupied since its restoration was completed in 1905. When Decorator Jacques Grange first inspected the premises in 1982, he found himself inside a glorious attic in which hundreds of pigeons flew free under a glass rooftop supported by a metal framework. Grange and Architect Daniel Kahane kept practically everything but the birds. They added oak for the floors, stone for stairs and gallery walls, spending nearly $6 million to achieve an easy, inviting elegance...
...Patriots thrilled us for 19 weeks this season. Two weeks ago they rode a tidal wave of hoopla into the Superdome, and emerged with the most inglorious defeat in the history of the nation's most glorious sporting event...
...causes of the events in the morning's media footage. When Reagan spoke to the nation, he refered to the day's human tragedy and canonized new heroes. One simply couldn't come out and say it: our rocket had blown up. The nation was emasculated, bewildered, dumbstruck as glorious pride turned to impotence in a blinding flash...