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Second surprise: Dragons' Den isn't a U.S. show. Started in Japan, it has become a prime-time hit in Britain, not known for entrepreneurial zeal or money obsession. That, of course, is changing. The Brits are demonstrating that they can be as avaricious and rude as any Yanks. The VCs, who include Doug Richard, an American expat, even fight with one another. "You've just completely been a sly little s___," one excoriated another after getting burned...
...task will be even more difficult now that the man most dedicated to the cause will no longer be involved. Stockman was the last of the pragmatic group at the White House that placed top priority on the deficit danger. Yet despite his intense zeal on the subject, he was able to discuss it with a sense of humor last week. "I would like to take the deficit with me," cracked Stockman at one of the White House meetings, "but at Salomon Brothers we finance half of it anyway." --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Sam Allis and Christopher...
...most conspicuous and skillful example of a leftward tilt is the R.S.C.'s anti-imperialist version of Shakespeare's celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands vision, the play becomes a chronicle of doomed and bloody consequences of meddling abroad. In its most striking visual image, the names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages...
...it’s Zahn who runs away with the film. He plays his cookie-cutter, funny-but-loyal sidekick bit with great zeal and goofy charisma. Amazingly, he even manages to project a degree of endearing, befuddled sincerity into his underwritten role...
...precisely the extent to which it is seduced by its protagonist’s own rhetoric and rhetorical figures. Benegal doesn’t fail to convey that he has great enthusiasm and passion for the subject he has chosen. But this passion seems, too often, like the zeal of a propagandist and not enough like the reflection of an artist open to the ethical difficulties of the “conflictual tapestry” he has chosen to represent...