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...There were people who were for it and people who were critical," said Fairchild Professor of Law Andrew L. Kaufman, who chairs the space committee. "The real question is numbers, and we won't know that for two weeks...
...developer: "The lights in our industry have just gone out. There are going to * be some very tragic times. Within the next four years, 50% of the workers in construction and real estate could be unemployed." Even in California, where the building market has known no direction but up, Kaufman and Broad Home Corp. of Los Angeles reported a 5% drop in third-quarter profits as nervous home buyers delayed housing purchases. "Uncertainty is 90% of the problem," says Chad Dreier, the company's chief financial officer...
...woman might have between affairs. It has the odd quality of being funny and well written, despite an occasional outbreak of coupling adverbs ("passionately, tenderly"). But it is utterly unmemorable. The author can't seem to care much about her heroine, a pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets are either too strong or too weak, never just right. In fact, the reader decides, the men are handsome fakes, big-jawed 42 regulars snipped from a Ralph Lauren...
...Kaufman can feel gratified that his film will be shown as he made it. But it never should have been an X, even by the ratings board's standards. Agreeing to the new classification marks a defeat for the film -- and for provocative films to follow. Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky, a Christmas release starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich, is rumored to be cruising for an adults-only rating. The X was the forbidden zone, which strong directors could fight, sometimes successfully, to avoid. The NC-17 is different: a limbo rating. Will the board award it more...
...though, the moviegoer wonders at the controversy. One might expect sexual fireworks aplenty in the literary love story of Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros), two residents of the sex-as-art pantheon, and their put-upon spouses (Uma Thurman and Richard E. Grant). But Kaufman is a gent who dreams, ever so fastidiously, about nymphs and satyrs. And here he cannot find the moviemaking skill to suit his fine passion. His actors look stranded; with the exception of the tremulous, bewitching De Medeiros, they indulge in huff and bluster. As for the sex that...