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...drawn towards Olivia, whose subtle beauty and romantic refinement pervades the film even during the modern-day scenes. But Olivia's power comes from her mysteriousness, her eventual desire to live alone, and Scacchi never lets us enter too far into Olivia's mind. The actress captures Olivia's repressed sexuality and carefully repressed feelings: her Olivia represents all women caught between Victorian prudishness and modern openness and free love...
...Department's Civil Rights Division are cracking down on what they believe is the widespread use of threats and violence to force migrants and other transients to work. Prosecutors have dusted off a set of slavery and peonage laws originally dating from the 19th century to fight this modern-day affront to the 13th Amendment, which forbids slavery. Next week the House Labor Standards subcommittee will convene hearings to evaluate the performance of federal agencies in enforcing current laws. In announcing the hearings, the subcommittee chairman, California Democrat George Miller, said, "The Constitution made slavery illegal over 100 years...
...Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would earn 10% of the bond, in this case $13,700, plus expenses and a bonus...
...modern-day version of the great heroes who appeared from time to time throughout history," said President Ronald Reagan. "There were many like him in the past-pioneers, soldiers, lawmen, explorers-people who all went out and put their lives on the line for the cause of good." Whom did he mean? An astronaut, perhaps, or a star FBI drug buster. No, Reagan was praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also...
Businessmen in Texas have always had an outsize impact, whether they were cattle ranchers, oil wildcatters or the modern-day bankers and real estate financiers. Says Scott Bennett, executive director of the Texas hall: "Business is a state religion in Texas." The Hall of Fame is supposed to be its cathedral, but no permanent site has yet been selected...