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The big story today is what happens when blue tape meets red tape, with the House Judiciary wrangle over the release of Starr report evidence--including the Clinton video--leading at USA Today , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times puts that story on the top front, but goes instead with Congress' likely decision to transfer control of satellite exports back to the State Dept. from the Commerce Dept., a development with its roots in a now-nearly forgotten Clinton technology-transfer-for-political-donations scandal broken last spring by the Times , a development nobody else's front page covers.
As far as I'm concerned, the best thing that happens in the second season is a major discovery we make about her in Episode 3, which for once I'm not going to give away.
As it happens, many wonderful terms for empty or hypocritical talk are by now quaint and archaic ( humbuggery , Pharisaism , Tartuffery ), and some of the most common terms are simply vulgar ( bullshit ).
What happens if they can't pay their heating or electric bill because of extreme temperatures?
Director Mike Leigh's latest film about working-class Brits "trapped in the hopelessness of modern life" (Richard Schickel, Time ) is rated a notch below his acclaimed Naked and Secrets & Lies . The premise--ex-college roommates spend a weekend together for the first time in six years--is overly "modest" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ): "[N]othing much happens, dramatically speaking," says Schickel.