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...majority of the French, the time had come at last for a dramatic change in the nation's long-frozen political landscape. Seven years under patrician, aloof President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were enough. Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked...
...well-bred reason-behind every line of dialogue there's a Wasp sting. Each actor built a solid reputation in off-Broadway theater; the first film for each was a sophisticated sci-fi horror show (Altered States for Hurt, Alien for Weaver) that exploited the performer's patrician features and willful wit. Now the makers of Eyewitness have conspired to play these two appealing obsessives against each other for off-center romantic comedy...
...attentions of both Sam Curtis (John Beck), a tomcatting entrepreneur, and Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned...
...earlier centuries in Civilisation, after which The Shock of the New is patterned. But whereas Clark reflected an older, more urbane sensibility, Hughes, 42, is as brash and electric as his subject. He is sometimes seen in shirtsleeves; his blond hair is always unruly. Instead of Clark's patrician, High Church accent, Hughes speaks in a matey, sometimes too hearty Australian that lapses easily-and quite appropriately-into slang. Talking about Chicago's pioneering building developers, for instance, he says that their policy was to "grab the block, screw the neighbors...
...dozen soldiers and civilians he meets along the Via Dolorosa. Half of them are Americans, half Ambolanders; three are women. (All are played by Bob Gunton.) These "historical events" serve as avatars and parodies of the looking-glass warriors, and most of them are perversely delightful. Mme. Ing, the patrician Borgia who rules Amboland, ends every discussion with the despot's stern logic: "Mme. Ing has won that argument," she purrs. U.S. Army Lieutenant Thibodeaux brags that the service "taught me how to fight and how to swear"-and then demonstrates just how poorly he learned at least...