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...government's rationale is that the 8 million French citizens who traveled abroad last year spent $4.9 billion, or more than a third of the trade deficit. The government hopes to slice that sum in half, although some analysts predict that, given the ability of most Frenchmen to circumvent rules, one-fifth would be more realistic. But the negative effects will be substantial. State-owned Air France, for example, could lose 1 million passengers this year...
...settle for. Murphy has a dead-end job, a cluttered mobile home, a cynical pal (Steve Rankin) and a wife (the elfin Holly Hunter) who still carries a torch for Elvis Presley. This comedy's ambitions are no loftier than Shroeder's; it is just a tasty slice of lowlife, but full of sweet feeling for its tattered eccentrics. As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened to the kingdom of machismo...
...Split down the middle, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee decided to postpone its vote until after the congressional Easter recess. Despite intensive lobbying by Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted to slice in half the $60 million package. And though approving the full amount, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, like the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tied strings to the money: to get it, the Administration must promise to promote talks between the warring sides in El Salvador...
...imperialism, fascism, racism, even male chauvinism or the belabored-to-death class system, but an enemy there must be. Americans often make a hash of British plays, mangling not just the accents but the invective. Sometimes, though, an American director's instinctively naturalistic approach, evoking a slice of life, can soften a didactic play and give it newfound emotional depth...
...bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just a bigger slice of a smaller...