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Forget the awful American title that defaces this effervescent French comedy. Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed suggests the species of snickering sex farce that runs forever in Parisian and West End theaters. Coline Serreau originally named the film after her two star-crossed lovers: Romuald and Juliette. That title is simply fine...
...plot is complexity itself. Romuald (Daniel Auteuil) runs a yogurt company. He is having an affair with his secretary. His wife is having an affair with his assistant. The assistant botches a vat of yogurt, triggering a rash of food poisoning. Two other colleagues of Romuald's frame their boss on an insider-trading charge, and soon Romuald is fired. If only he would listen to Juliette (Firmine Richard), the office cleaning woman, who has been uncovering scraps of the conspiracy while maintaining the bluff invisibility of the servant class. And if Romuald listens to this black Cassandra...
...what to do for more than a week. He sent Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to Europe to try to sell America's allies on the idea of imposing joint sanctions against Poland and perhaps the Soviet Union as well. He received Poland's Ambassador to the U.S. Romuald Spasowski, who sought political asylum in the U.S. last week, and hailed Spasowski and his wife Wanda for their courage. In his Christmas ad dress, Christmas President expressed the concern with people." Administration over the events in Poland and declared, "If the outrages in Poland do not cease, we cannot...
...been "detained," it was plain that the list had been drawn up in advance: three people on it were out of the country. (Not on the list but determined to protest the "flagrant and brutal" crackdown and to express his "solidarity" with Walesa: Poland's Ambassador to the U.S., Romuald Spasowski, who sought and was swiftly granted asylum along with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.) Last week, after the sudden crackdown, a Gdansk doctor said he realized at last why so many extra beds had been placed in the local military hospital the week before...
...Romuald Spasowski, Poland's ambassador to the U.S., said when contacted last night that "I don't see any difficulty" in Baranczak's coming here. A State Department spokesman said "we understand there's some movement in the case" but would not go further...