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...gentle self-mockery, teaching the inexhaustible lesson that appearances are deceiving. The actors understand that the essence of being stylish is ease and zest, not straining for artificial mannerisms. Pownall (also author of Master Class) merges the wry, knowing voice of the novel's narrator with the character of Mr. Bennett, whom Austen describes as "a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve and caprice." That fusion provides a moral center, and Kiley gives perhaps his finest performance since Man of La Mancha as a father who really does know best. --W.A.H...
Besides, didn't you notice the changes? I'm divorced now and supposedly more worldly. My next-door neighbor (Carlene Watkins) comes to me for advice about boyfriends, not the other way around. It took seven years for Mr. Grant and me to make a tentative, farcical try at a love scene; my new boss made a pass at me my very first day. I think he still might be after me. That's called sexual tension. Very adult...
...making each side less confident that it could rely on new weaponry. It would at least be an important symbolic step. In mid-December, 46 U.S. Senators, including twelve Republicans, wrote Reagan urging him to resume test-ban talks to "demonstrate to the world that both you and Mr. Gorbachev are willing to take concrete steps to further reduce superpower tension." After years of tortuous arms-control negotiations, a test ban has the popular appeal of a quick and easy fix, harking back to the enduring 1963 treaty to end nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in space...
Since People's corporate structure is relatively free of middle managers, Burr is no remote Mr. Big to his workers. He sits down on a regular basis with all 1,000 of the airline's team leaders, about 20 at a time, in sessions that can run up to eight hours. All the while, Burr gulps coffee from a porcelain mug. "They think my meetings are too long," he says. "I like that. It means we go into detail." Burr first listens to their problems and ideas, but then he asks for the sky and the clouds. Says Burr: "This...
Gloria Swanson, for example, pays homage to "Mr. Edison . . . and all the people who had any thing to do with an invention. It made it possible to put us all in tin cans, like sardines. We could have been bad actors, it didn't matter. It was the fact of volume . . . you were just shipped everywhere." Louise Brooks, the '20s star who first retired from films in 1931 at the age of 25, recalls everything and glamourizes nothing: "They keep talking now about deterioration and how the films are lost. They always forget that the big way they were lost...