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...mini air strikes spur the Serbs to close in on Gorazde...
...Yale is on the way down. After two quick wins, the Elis are in the midst of the first mini-slump of their season with straight two losses. With a 7-3 run of their own, Yale is keeping just above .500 overall with an 11-10 mark...
...there is any real problem with this production, it involves the issue of critical distance. In writing about an era that had passed, Eliot felt free to comment on it, as a humorist and stern solon. By contrast, the mini-series is more of a period piece. It replicates the story but reflects only in part the wisdom of Eliot's novel...
...America, PBS is hoping for at least a mini-hit, and Random House has issued a handsome new Modern Library edition of the book. But can the series' success at home be duplicated here? It's hard to say. As Masterpiece Theatre host Russell Baker wryly suggests, many Americans, like himself, developed a terminal aversion to Eliot's writing after having to read Silas Marner in ninth grade. That is a shame. Middlemarch is truly among the greatest books ever written and is, as Virginia Woolf put it, "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people...
Middlemarch was published in installments in 1871 and '72, but the action of the book, which the mini-series dutifully reflects, takes place in the troubled 1830s. Railways have begun to girdle (and befoul) England's green and pleasant land, and the Industrial Revolution has brought new wealth to towns like Eliot's fictional Middlemarch. The passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, which enlarged the franchise, has created fear of revolution among reactionaries while holding out the promise of democratizing a corrupt and elitist Parliament...