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...songs, dogs, hats, chandeliers, white lilies, waiting taxis and one adorably solemn child. Dispensing with period photos or newsreel clips in which the historical John Reed might compete with Beatty's Jack, the film instead takes testimony from 32 "witnesses"-old friends and colleagues like Henry Miller, Adela Rogers St. Johns and Rebecca West, who offer a Kane-like kaleidoscope of memories. The rest of Reds is a nonstop narrative that climaxes with skyrockets over Red Square and finds its denouement in a lovely Liebestod. The script, by Beatty and British Playwright Trevor Griffiths (with help, reportedly, from Elaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Go On | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Committee members are hesitant to identify areas other than admissions policies that might contribute to such perceptions. Adela Cepeda '80, one of the committee members, said the doubts may stem from what she called "socialization effects." It's not that minority students are not as intellectually competent, Cepeda said, but that they "are conditioned to think that they're not as good." Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation and a committee member, said he hopes the report will help dispel such myths. "The fact that some minority students perceive themselves as less than...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Race Relations Report Issued, Cites Misperceptions, Doubts | 5/9/1980 | See Source »

Alarmed, three of Adela's investors filed bankruptcy proceedings against her earlier this month. Meanwhile, the New York State attorney general's office had been conducting the investigation that led to last week's indictment. The SEC is pursuing a separate inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Winging a Broadway Angel | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Adela professes to be unfazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Winging a Broadway Angel | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...each day and continues to make last-minute changes on her autobiography, If at first . . ., which is due out in the fall. After firing two other attorneys, she has now settled on Roy Cohn, the onetime investigator for Communist-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy. "1 know he is controversial," says Adela. "but he treats me like a human being." On 70 charges of second-degree larceny in the New York indictment alone, she could be sentenced to a total of 490 years in jail, not counting the additional decades that might be added for other state charges. The total would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Winging a Broadway Angel | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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