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...Regard Malcolm L. Kushner, humor consultant, and how he got to be this...
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...
...said, to the general agreement of the Canadians, "Something has gone terribly wrong with the international trading system. This is not free trade as we envisioned it." A telling comment on Danforth's view emerged at the beginning of the week during a meeting with Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, when the Canadians learned that talks with Japan on telecommunications had been suspended that very...
...Administration is not getting much cooperation in those areas. By April 1, for example, the Japanese are scheduled to issue a set of trading regulations dealing with telecommunications equipment made by foreign firms. The Japanese, though, have not produced the regulations. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "All we hear is rumors, and the rumors are really bad." So annoyed was Baldrige, in fact, that he considered not sending Lionel Olmer, his Under Secretary for International Trade, to a second series of talks this week with the Japanese over telecommunications trade. Baldrige said that the Japanese once more wanted to talk...
...deaf, stupid. You are doomed. You are a failure. I pity you. I despise you." In other letters she wished people dead. Of an elderly lady who, Svetlana thought, had crossed her, she wrote, "I hope she will not be with us too long." To British Author Malcolm Muggeridge, a deeply religious man who had been her host during a brief visit to Britain, she wrote, "You are one of these obsessed, demoniac natures who ought to be avoided at all costs...