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...Golden Globes' well-rated return to network TV (after years on cable and syndication) was something of a milestone in TV's awards-show mania. Little more than a decade ago, the big four--the Oscars, Tonys, Emmys and Grammys--pretty much had the field to themselves. Now it seems as though every Hollywood interest group, craft union and country-music association has its own awards--and a TV special to trumpet them. More than 30 awards shows will be seen on national TV this year, and the high season is just beginning: 10 of them will be crowded into...
...hero is a middle-age intelligence operative put to pasture by bosses who decide (wrongly, as it turns out) that his skills and mind-set are obsolete. A bittersweet love affair winds through a landscape of modern menace, whose vectors, by now quite familiar, are ethnic and religious mania...
Amir saw himself as an agent of God, much as Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as an agent of "history." The young man's mania lay in this desire for greatness. Amir created a destiny for himself that would make him greater than Rabin. One brutal act would propel him out of obscurity. One brutal act would make him a hero or a martyr...
...sheer consistency, even Bergman's themes have Doppelgangers. The paranoid artist could be Bergman himself or it could be any artist. Johan might be skirting high society out of fear of sexual humiliation or from feelings of freakishness. His mania might derive more from sexual dissatisfaction with the rather homely Alma than from any frustration with the way his neighbors' treat him. Johan obviously suffers his insanity so we feel compassion for him, but his moods make him too unpleasant to be truly sympathetic...
...been four probusiness cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended in periods of heavy regulation. There are now signs, says the Report, that "strategic overreaching is already provoking a new countertide." Among the symptoms: public opinion worried about the ruling party...