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...popular culture. This first-ever TV version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes not from an American network but from the BBC. The director is a seasoned hand at such transatlantic transactions: Trevor Nunn, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the man who brought Cats and Les Miserables to Broadway...
Washington -- The Seawolf attack submarine is built in Connecticut, and during last year's Connecticut primary, candidate Clinton promised to support a third Seawolf. Last week in his major Bottom Up review of military requirements, Defense Secretary Les Aspin reaffirmed the Administration's plans to build that submarine. The unmentioned price: $5.5 billion -- more than five times initial estimates. That is one reason why Clinton must renege on $13 billion of the $124 billion he planned to cut from the Pentagon's budget over the next five years...
Defense Secretary Les Aspin unveiled a five-year plan to cut back on military spending and personnel. Troop numbers would shrink from 1.7 million to 1.4 million, and "Star Wars" spending would be cut from $39 billion to $18 billion. The U.S. would continue its strategy of remaining prepared to fight two regional wars nearly simultaneously, Aspin said. The Pentagon also acknowledged that it intended to purchase unnecessary weapons in order to keep production lines running...
DIRECTOR: LES BLAIR...
None of this is presented melodramatically. Bad Behaviour was improvised, under Les Blair's direction, by its actors. They were obviously looking for characters to play, not a plot to follow or pre-existent outlines to fill in. For a change, this dangerous technique works: the film's best quality is its lifelike drift. Like real people, and unlike movie people, these figures will do anything to escape confrontation with their problems, with themselves...