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...burden falls on Queen Victoria, whose portrait en famille by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (who was to her and Prince Albert what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd; and police murmur discreetly into cellular intercoms. But otherwise it's like being shepherded, en masse, through an empty stage set. Nobody here but us tourists...
...inspired passage. Allen and Marshall Brickman, the co-writer who worked with him so brilliantly in the past (Annie Hall, Manhattan), have concocted a steady stream of badinage that buoys the whole movie along. But these exchanges evaporate, and the movie is surprisingly flat visually. There comes a moment when you realize how wrong just being funny is for Allen. Ambition is an essential goad to his sensibility. It pushes him toward the rueful resonances of those previous Brickman collaborations and toward the magical transformations of reality in The Purple Rose of Cairo and Radio Days...
...number of the White House's nominees for important posts were approved by Senate committees, putting a halt to the seemingly endless stream of controversy over nominations that the Administration has endured. The Judiciary Committee voted 18 to 0 in favor of confirming Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Justice of the Supreme Court. The Labor and Human Resources Committee gave a 13-to-4 endorsement to Dr. Joycelyn Elders to be Surgeon General. Louis Freeh, the nominee for fbi director, seems headed for quick approval this week...
Interspersed throughout the novel are embarrassing attempts at Gallic philosophizing. This too often emerges as juvenile, stream-of-consciousness rambling. Henrietta, asked to justify her subject matter, responds...
Harvard fundraising traditionally relies on alumni donors, most of them American Citizens. No statistics were available on Harvard's current stream of international cash...