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...utility has a 30-day grace period, which ends in mid-November, to correct its default. If it fails to do so, creditors could push Public Service into bankruptcy and reorganization. The company would then become the first U.S. utility to succumb financially to the nuclear-plant cost overruns and environmental battles that have plagued dozens of plants across the country. Even the $2.25 billion default of the Washington Public Power Supply System in 1983 failed to knock out any utilities, largely because WPPSS was a consortium in which the financial burden was shared by 16 companies. But the weight...
Sukowa's acting combines grace and power. She transforms her role into a psychological study, conveying the essence of a woman who could deliver roaring speeches at one moment and then adjourn to a sophisticated ball. After watching Sukowa's Luxemburg, one understands exactly what the radical's daily life was like--her struggle for her ideology, the embittering of her personal life and the eventual estrangement of her allies...
Director Ivory has certainly filmed Maurice beautifully, handling the love scenes with particular grace. Throughout the film, he bathes the men in the most flattering of lights and colors, and thus ends up with homosexual love scenes that look completely natural if not especially erotic. While these moments seem perfectly frank--especially with more of the Room With A View-type naturalistic nudity--the actors also never muster any impressive degree of passion...
While some of Hite's women are more moderate, even conciliatory, the emphasis on the strident seems off-key to many observers. Grace Pierce, 31, a Houston architect, objects to Hite's portrayal of women as "total victims." Says she: "I don't buy that." Women used to blame themselves for everything, observes Eileen O'Grady, 31, a business writer at the Houston Post. "Now we are saying, 'It's his fault,' and that's just...
...favor after 1650. What the Spanish church wanted was the sweetness and emotional flexibility of Murillo, and Zurbaran had turned to producing devotional paintings by the score for the provincial market in Latin America. Some of the late madonnas in which he tried to rival Murillo's sentimental grace are sugary beyond belief, and the swarms of putti that infest them are among the ugliest in Spanish...