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...Shaffer's play Amadeus, from which the film was adapted, sees the transcendent in Mozart's music, and, inevitably, the immanent in his own. And his own barrenness torments him. He despairs that he can only hear, and not create, the absolute music that flows from his rival's pen. In this sense, Amadeus is brutally relevant, as it engages the quintessentially post-modern problem of creative importence. More coherant and more powerful than the film it spawned, the play presents itself as a speculative exercise rather than a revisionist biography...
...winner, to the extent that there was any, was extreme-right-winger Jean-Marie le Pen, leader of the xenophobic National Front. His party also took 14% of the vote, only 4 points above its showing in the 1986 regional elections. But it established itself as a force in every region of France and as the most influential right-wing party in Europe. In some other areas its representatives will be the kingmakers, deciding who will lead closely divided councils. The Communists, once the biggest single party in France, bottomed out with 8% of the vote...
...price could be a huge increase in power for Le Pen's National Front. It has only one parliamentary seat now, but if last week's voting pattern were repeated under full proportional representation, it would rocket up to 77 seats (out of 577). A onetime student thug in the Latin Quarter who lost an eye in a street brawl, and an ex-paratrooper who interrogated prisoners in Algiers (he denies having tortured them), Le Pen tries these days to project a more moderate personal image. He dresses in dark suits and subdued neckties rather than the army khakis...
...added success for Le Pen's mean and narrow nationalism would be bound to diminish further France's influence as one of the five countries with veto power on the United Nations Security Council and as a leader in integration of the European Community. And whatever happens to Le Pen, that influence is already threatened by the prospect of a period during which the country is increasingly absorbed in internal wrangling...
...individual who fortu- nately had sufficient public, professionalrecognition and brilliant pages from his pen to beable to make it past all of these obstacles andhurdles," Bryson said...