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Pinter also overturns one's stylistic expectations. When the English upper crust gets to pip-pipping about infidelity, the viewer settles back prepared for a comedy of manners. What he gets here is very little comedy, a great many mannerisms, and none of the sentiment that Noel Coward used...
The unpleasant nature of the Moscow math scene is now behind Bernstein, as he settles down to a new life of research and teaching. He gives his plans for the future with characteristic understatement. "I want to study new things. I want to finish some new things. Then I want...
Neighborhood activists worry that the spread of pinball and liquor licenses exemplifies the direction in which the area is going. One person active in the fight against Dream Machine places his battle in a larger context. "We're all pretty worried about what the Square is going to look like...
There are two basic visions of it. Protectionism, in the free trader's eyes: When an economy gets sick, it wants to withdraw from the world. A protectionist psychosis sets in. The invalid retreats into the house and locks the doors and windows and pulls the shades. Hypochondriac, jittery...
Or else, the protectionist's happy dream: The prospering American family gathers at its bright windows to peer outside. There, in the dusk, the streets are clogged with trade-crazed foreigners, Brazilians burdened down with shoes, Koreans with shirts, Japanese revving their Hondas, bearing a million videotape recorders on...