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Screenwriter Alan Bennett has described A Private Function as "the fulfillment of his long-held desire to write about a chiropodist and (Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul...
...their departments might be dispersed to other agencies or combined in some fashion. While neither the Energy nor Education departments, which have strong advocates on Capitol Hill and constituencies outside of Government, seemed in imminent danger of being dismantled, it was clear that Reagan had not totally abandoned his long-held desire to get rid of them. More confusion was created by a Cabinet-meeting discussion at which it was decided to consider the possibility of creating an entirely new Department of Trade and Industry. As currently envisioned, the new bureaucracy would combine some duties of the Commerce Department...
...scientific community has been caught off-guard by the immediacy of the greenhouse effect because the long-held view that increasing carbon-dioxide levels could be predicted by looking at pollution levels has been shattered. Scientists have discovered that there are innumerable factors that cause a given amount of pollution to cause a greater build-up of carbon dioxide. Deforestation and the decreasing ability of ocean sediments to absorb carbon dioxide ,for example, has severely disrupted the carbon cycle--the process by which terrestrial life absorbs and breaks down carbon compounds and emits pure carbon into the atmosphere. Climatologists assert...
From the beginning, the PCjr was viewed as something more than just another machine. For some, the entry of IBM into the low-cost market promised the fulfillment of long-held dreams of getting a computer into every home and classroom. Others expected that IBM would quickly dominate the markets for home and school computers just as it had taken over the one for office machines...
...hard evidence. The percentage of voters identifying themselves in exit polls as Republicans did rise about five points from 1980, but still was only about 35%. There were some indications, however, that realignment is at least a possibility, given a suc cessful Reagan second term. The election destroyed the long-held assumption that an increase in voting automatically favors the Democrats. The total vote on Tuesday rose only to a projected 89.3 million, from 86.5 million in 1980; the percentage of those eligible who actually cast ballots fell to 51.4% from 52.6% four years ago. Nonetheless, most...