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...fluent in English and French. Mulroney has never held public office, and Turner has not held elective office since resigning as Finance Minister eight years ago. (Mulroney, who took over the Conservatives in June 1983, won his parliamentary seat two months later). Both are corporate lawyers who favor a mild rightward shift in government. Neither advocates a major assault on Canada's extensive social-welfare system, although both favor long-term reductions in the country's U.S. $22.5 billion federal deficit (7.7% of last year's G.N.P.) and a more receptive climate for foreign, particularly U.S., investment...
Like America itself, in other words, but more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people...
...last hours Geoffrey's business is to reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need...
...script is perhaps overplotted and has heavy expository burdens (again the analogy with real opera occurs). Moviegoers whose emotional connection to the Star Trek mythos is mild may find themselves missing the self-satire that distinguished Star Trek II. They may also find them selves wondering occasionally if, after 79 television episodes and two features, the series is finally about to succumb to what has always been its besetting temptation, which is portentousness...
...been a worse one. A century ago, most educated people drew as a matter of course because it was the best way to remember what they saw. Great Aunt Lucinda with her watercolor set, earnestly dabbling in the shade of the Duomo, may have been a figure of mild fun; but she (multiplied by tens of thousands) was also the ground from which the tremendous graphic achievements of a Degas or a Matisse could rise. Such amateur experience added up to a general recognition that to draw, to reconstitute a motif as a code of lines and tonal patches...