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...many East Germans, Pieroth is a trenchant symbol of an unwanted West German economic anschluss with East Germany. "The process of developing our own character won't be advanced by flying in experts with their own agendas," says Wolfgang Templin, a member of the parliament from the leftist, ecology- minded Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. To develop a free-market economy, Templin and other critics maintain, East Germany does not have to ape the economy of West Germany. But that is precisely what East Germans voted for overwhelmingly last month, Pieroth responds. Says he: "We can't dictate...
...meticulous biography. Not many surprises can remain about a man who spent a life in the headlines. But the raw material made available by Burton's widow included letters and 350,000 words of diaries. That unforgettable speaking voice turns out to have been matched by a colorful and trenchant writing voice. This is not exactly Burton's autobiography. But 'tis enough, 'twill serve...
...abiding passion for trenchant realism...
...SERVICE (HBO, Oct. 20, 23, 26, 29). A TV station tries to boost its ratings by teaming a veteran newscaster (Paul Dooley) with a shallow young co- host (Griffin Dunne). Familiar TV satire given some trenchant new twists by playwright Howard Korder...
...formidable organization of his neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic Party. Barre, by contrast, played down his association with the Union for French Democracy, a loose coalition of center-right parties, and consequently failed to secure a partisan boost. Even though Barre, an economics professor, offered a more trenchant critique of Mitterrand's economic and defense policies than Chirac, all too often he did so in a style better suited to university lecture halls than to political rallies. Said Political Scientist Olivier Duhamel of the University of Paris- Nanterre: "He has spoken Gaullist words but failed to achieve a Gaullist...