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Edward and the monstrously self-absorbed Margaret deserve each other. She is perilously forgetful, almost amnesiac, it's difficult to see her successfully completing an undergraduate thesis, far less a dissertation and a subsequent book. The book which has brought her such acclaim, "The Anatomy of Madame de Montigny," has been embraced by the lit-crit crowd as a "a precursor of post-modern bricolage" which establishes her on the literary circuit...
...meets her. "O.K.," she says. On their wedding day, an anonymous old man (Sydney Walker) gives Rita a congratulatory kiss . . . and things start to go sour. On their honeymoon, she doesn't drink; Rita was a Dewar's girl. Before, she was forgetful; now she is an amnesiac. Suddenly she is fastidious in her lovemaking. To Peter, Rita seems another person. Isn't everyone, really, when the musk of courtship has evaporated and people stop playing at being their most attractive selves...
...this season, you'd need Marty McFly coming back from the future with, say, the Sept. 9 issue of Variety. So let's say The Rocketeer, Disney's no-star action fantasy, will ring the register. And Mike Nichols' Regarding Henry, with Harrison Ford as a lovelorn amnesiac. And Boyz N the Hood, a promising young director's first feature about gang bonding. And -- no, stop! This could take all summer...
...BOURNE IDENTITY (ABC, May 8 and 9, 9 p.m. EDT). Mr. Mini-Series, Richard Chamberlain, stars in a two-parter based on Robert Ludlum's novelabout an amnesiac desperately seeking his past...
...Soviet launches of antisatellite weapons. While there is good reason to be wary of Soviets bearing disarmament initiatives, there is no reason for refusing to probe them further. Yet the Reagan Administration dismissed Soviet ASAT feelers out of hand. It did so partly because of its shortsighted and amnesiac confidence in the superiority of American high tech, and partly because of its deep-seated distaste for arms control of any kind...