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...have found a well-matched mate. Such humble detachment is a hallmark of liberalism; a good liberal can look at anyone--serial killer or serial monogamist--and see how circumstances of birth and upbringing loaded the dice. A guiding insight of modern liberalism is "There but for the grace...
BURT BACHARACH, swinging elevator-music king, and ELVIS COSTELLO, curmudgeonly Scot, have teamed up to create a song for the movie Grace of My Heart. It wasn't a close collaboration: the tune was written mostly by playing eight-bar snatches into each other's answering machine. But the two did make a connection. "We've talked about doing an album together," says Bacharach. "We've even got a concept." Costello may have time too; he keeps hinting that he's on his last tour. And Bacharach is enjoying a steep rise in grooviness, especially in England. Says...
...MOVIES: GRACE OF MY HEART To watch a movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary. In Allison Anders" Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Ileana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes...
...being born, we in the U.S. should be occupied by our American experiment. The political breakthrough that freed us from an inbred aristocracy is a concept that in 220 years has led to the dissolution of dozens of dynasties and royal houses. Hereditary monarchies, with the appellation "by the grace of God," are more than just quaint anachronisms. The English should spend less time considering whether Diana should be called Her Royal Highness and a little more considering why anyone should be. THOMAS BALL San Juan, Texas Via E-mail...
...highly regarded as the women, they nonetheless performed better than expected, staying in the medal hunt almost to the end and finishing a respectable fifth. (Russia captured the gold.) In the individual competition, national champion John Roethlisberger pumped up the crowd with his intensity but couldn't match the grace of China's Li Xiaoshuang, who nudged out Russia's Alexei Nemov for the gold...