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...Summer House isn't really a funny movie, though it is often wry, sometimes wise and generally genial. It is, more than anything, a rather sober meditation on life's tendency to disappoint. "I had hoped to die young," says Lili (Jeanne Moreau), "but now it's too late." Scarves aflutter, jewelry ajangle, her hair aflame with henna, she has just breezed in from Egypt and a past everyone once shared along the Nile. She copes by constant movement, outrageous talk and copious quantities of alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic...
...Robert Brustein has criticized commercial theater for letting the audience leave feeling "warm and wise," and he puts Sisters Rosensweig in that category. Are you uncomfortable with that criticism...
...down on practice time over the course of the season to try and prevent a repeat of the ignominious March of last spring. Harvard is much more focused on the postseason this year, and as the season goes on, it's looking more and more like the wise move in saving some energy and avoiding a premature peaking...
...rules, theologians observe, angels are the handy compromise, all fluff and meringue, kind, nonjudgmental. And they are available to everyone, like aspirin. "Each of us has a guardian angel," declares Eileen Freeman, who publishes a bimonthly newsletter called AngelWatch from her home in Mountainside, New Jersey. "They're nonthreatening, wise and loving beings. They offer help whether we ask for it or not. But mostly we ignore them...
...Pentagon had become accustomed to light supervision by civilians under Reagan and Bush, when Defense Department officials routinely had their staff work done by uniformed personnel of the Joint Chiefs. Inman may be less likely than Aspin to fill Pentagon offices with former congressional aides. But if Inman's wise, he will fill posts more quickly. Aspin launched one of the major undertakings of his tenure, a "bottom up" review of military-force needs in the post-cold war era, even as dozens of high-level vacancies remained, including the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force...