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Congratulations to Chairman J. Peter Grace and his task force of corporate executives for pinpointing hundreds of examples of wasteful Government spending [Jan. 23]. Senators and Congressmen who are reluctant to comply with the solutions proposed by the Grace commission should swallow their home-town pride and consider the big picture...
...Democrats as the high-tax party. Democrats, for their part, agreed reluctantly to join a budget-cutting conference while gloomily predicting that Reagan was trying to inveigle them into giving a bipartisan blessing to gargantuan deficits, or set them up as scapegoats, or both. As a kind of grace note to the babble, one of the President's top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, derided the analysis of another, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein, as ivory-tower dreaming. Said Regan, once chief of the giant securities firm Merrill Lynch, about the CEA report prepared by Feldstein...
...popular Democrat, rode Evangeline. Edwards was Governor from 1972 until 1980, when he was blocked by the state's constitution from seeking a third successive term. He came back last fall, when he was eligible, and recaptured the office from the Republican incumbent, David Treen, who fell from grace with the electorate for committing the unpardonable sin-in Louisiana-of being dull. The Governor's raven-haired daughter Vickie explained the public's fondness for Edwards as the plane bibulously roared toward France. Said Vickie: "That man really gives a damn about his state...
...probably the best thing about the film, with Nathalie Baye particularly standing out as Nicole. Baye, remembered for an excellent performance in The Return of Martin Guerre. plays another ambiguous heroine. She infuses the whore-with-a-heart-of-gold with a mixture of toughness, humour, and catlike grace. She is actually believable as the prostitute who makes 30,000 a month while at the same time deeply in love...
...town, with its strutting moguls and its smile-when-you-call-me-an-artist directors. And the virtues it has traditionally valued are masculine ones: energy, efficiency, power, animus, each melodramatic plot resolved with a sock to the jaw. From French films one has come to expect delicacy, grace, comradely tenderness, a ruminative intelligence. Their directors seem to inhabit an exalted sorority where girlish high spirits, sage whispers and rueful endearments reverberate in the hallways. So leave it to French Film Maker Diane Kurys to devise, in Entre Nous, a bittersweet domestic epic that reconciles feminism with femininity...