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Black cats skulk underfoot; the faces on wall icons frown with disapproval at any liberal impulse; the chief servant, Justina (a delicious turn by Harriet Andersson), has the butch haircut and sadistic ca prices of a prison-camp guard. In this house of silent horror the children can take refuge only in dreams of escape - to the arms of an old family friend, the Jew Isak Jacobi (Erland Josephson), whose house has some old, dark secrets that, in the mind of a child, can seem as exciting as black magic...
...still manage to convey not only the spirit of a great designer but a suggestion of his essence. And anyone who wants to argue that a maker of fashion can be an artist could do no better than to start here. The ground in the vicinity seems particularly firm underfoot...
...answers about how a good man succumbs to evil forces, Playwright Taylor has etched the profile of an insidiously disarming process. That process was perhaps best described by Britain's belletrist of metaphysics, C.S. Lewis: "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts...
Tokenism is, of course, unfair to qualified men, who risk getting trampled underfoot in the headlong rush to place women--any women--in high positions. It also denigrates women and tends to limit the number of real women powerholders, the Sansone candidacy being a case in point. It also keeps women out of major positions which carry more than symbolic import. State parties are quite willing to nominate women for lower, largely figurehead posts, but there are currently no women governors. Only two gubernatorial candidates nationwide today are female...
...most ferocious free-for-all in their 357-year history. After years of steady expansion, two giant companies, Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis and Miller Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, are locked in a struggle for dominance of the entire market, while smaller regional and local brewers are getting trampled underfoot. In the past five decades, the ranks of American brewers have dwindled from 750 to a mere 45. Says Emanuel Goldman, a beer-industry analyst for the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. investment firm of New York City: "The industry truly is in the final throes of consolidation...