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...fact, the filmmakers keep the focus on themes that must have made the book seem subversive when it was first published 183 years ago. For underlying Austen's comedy of manners is a sometimes grim drama about preserving a life-style in a world in which a woman's economic status was dependent on the brilliance of her marriage. The Bennet girls travel in polite society, but they are not as well off as the company they are trying to keep, a point they are not allowed to forget, thanks to the endless derision of people like the snobbish Miss...
...Clinton's claims about how close the two sides had come to a budget truce, jotting down the key numbers in the budget negotiations on a huge tablet as the cameras rolled. Having sent financial markets reeling the day before with his tough prognosis for budget peace, Gingrich remained grim, calling Clinton's comments "very, very disappointing." But Gingrich sidestepped Clinton's central point, notes TIME's Michael Duffy. "On the budget, Clinton positioned himself well by stating repeatedly he wanted a balanced budget as badly as the Republicans did, and had now proposed one using their CBO rules. Whether...
...BAND OF GOLD (HBO) This British mini-series about a group of prostitutes being stalked by a serial killer worked well as a thriller but even more effectively as a grim portrait of life in an impoverished English town. Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa) played a beautiful streetwalker with an affecting, un-Pretty-Woman-ish realism...
...MILITARY SHOULD NOT BE IN combat again in Europe, where large, rich, powerful nations watch the grim and bloody theater from their couches. MIKLOS EMHECHT North York, Canada...
These are troubling times in France, and there may be worse to come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce...