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...think what would happen if we cast that one last taboo aside and acknowledged that the real political equation might be the rich vs. the rest of us! George Bush would no doubt continue to complain, in ever shriller tones, about the dangers of "envy and divisiveness." Pat Buchanan, Clinton and other faux men of the people would have to admit that their assets place them securely within the Porsche-driving class. And the rest of us, especially in the vague middle strata, would have to toss out our lottery tickets and knuckle down for the struggle for national health...
Daisy Miller, only shriller. That's how European filmmakers have often pictured the American woman. In Luc Besson's The Big Blue, Arquette has to whine, pout, plead, giggle, all to get the attention of an otherworldly deep- ( sea diver (Jean-Marc Barr). But he has eyes only for dolphins and, vagrantly, for his fiercest competitor (Jean Reno). Two men dive to the depths -- and, perhaps, the death -- while she stays behind and paints Barr's apartment. Arquette has always looked like the last wanton of Woodstock, taunting the zippered-up '80s with her lithe carnality. But here...
...three-day visit to Rome, he reportedly warned Giulio Andreotti, his Italian counterpart, that U.S. renunciation of its space defense plan was "absolutely essential." Moreover, Gromyko's performance in Rome was merely the opening shot in a propaganda campaign against Star Wars that seems likely to grow even shriller than the "peace" campaign of the early '80s, which was aimed at preventing U.S. deployment of medium-range missiles in Western Europe. Said a leading West German defense analyst: "I have never seen Soviet officials so emotional as they are over Star Wars...
...after day, the rhetoric grew shriller. TASS, the Soviet news agency, fired barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs...
MOST OF THE TIME, Fonda portrays the writer just as one might envision the temperamental chain smoker. Occasionally, however, Hellman's stubborn scowls become Fonda's cute pouts and Robards's subtle understatements make Fonda seem even shriller. Fonda has her moments of glory, though, particularly as she confronts Broadway sycophants and awaits Hammett's judgments on her work, revealing the underlying dependence upon the older man she spent so much of her energy denying...