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...Committee to Stop G. Gordon Liddy, the Brandeis student-faculty coalition that organized the demonstration, distributed leaflets accusing Liddy of espousing Nazi authoritarian ideology. Liddy's daughter, Sally Alexandra, who attended the lecture, called this charge untrue but added. "He liked the idea of the way [the Nazis] attained their power...
...Malibu, Calif., Actress Jessica Lange, 33, hurries from a set of the film Frances to her trailer. There, she lovingly spoon-feeds pureed carrots to her eleven-month-old daughter Alexandra. When the loudspeaker calls her back to filming, Lange hands the child to the nurse and rushes out the door...
...over his infidelity and that he was anxious not to lose her money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through her own excesses. Von Bülow, they say, had no need...
...last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, a strongly anti-Communist...
Most stood patiently for five hours as two choirs intoned a hymn to the new saint (We glorify you, O Martyred Tsar), and gazed at a new icon commissioned for the canonization. It features Nicholas, Alexandra, and their offspring Alexis, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and the elusive Anastasia, who some observers feel survived the family slaughter. For the first time, the faithful prayed not for Nicholas' soul, but for his intercession in their behalf, as a friend of God. For the new St. Nicholas, toppled from one of the earthly realm's most powerful thrones, it was quite...