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Professor of Fine Arts Konrad Oberhuber, a specialist on the painter Raphael, and colleague Henri T. Zerner, a highly lauded theorist, also draw wide acclaim...
...while there it looked as if readers in the land of the free and the home of the brave were going to be protected from Author Kingsley Amis' 17th novel. Although it had won considerable acclaim when it appeared in England during the spring of 1984, Stanley and the Women did not find U.S. publishers begging for the rights to reprint it. Odd, thought some people, including Amis' literary agent Jonathan Clowes, who offered the novel to three houses only to receive "somewhat embarrassed" turndowns. Representatives from two of the American publishers told Clowes that their negative decisions were made...
...John F. Enders, who during nearly 50 years as a Harvard scientist won wide acclaim and a Nobel prize for helping to develop vaccines against polio, measles and mumps, died Sunday night at his summer home in Waterford, Conn. He was 88 years...
DIED. Ruth Gordon, 88, outspoken actress whose seven-decade career first peaked in the 1930s and '40s, when she reaped acclaim in such works as Broadway's A Doll's House (1937) and Hollywood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), then crested again in her 70s when she became a cult figure, especially for young people, in such offbeat films as Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971) and, most notably, Rosemary's Baby (1968), for which she won a supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays...
...bear the "Steven Spielberg Presents" imprimatur. The Goonies, directed by Richard Donner from a Spielberg story, earned a healthy $41.4 million in its first 24 days' release; Back to the Future, a spiffy time-machine comedy from Director-Writer Bob Zemeckis, opened last week to positive reviews and audience acclaim. But that is just for openers. Next week E.T. will beam back down to 1,500 theaters for a saturation rerelease. At Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg's studio-within-a- studio on the Universal Pictures lot, he is shepherding another pair of pictures, Young Sherlock Holmes and The Money Pit, toward...