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...fact extremely private, surrounded by a high wall." In Sydney, TIME'S Tim Dare talked to Actress Judy Davis about Lean's "volatile" directorial style. Reporter John Wright tracked down more than a dozen of Lean's past and present colleagues in England, including Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness. In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka spoke with Producer Sam Spiegel and Director Michael Powell and landed a rare interview with Katharine Hepburn, whose friendship with Lean dates back to their collaboration in the 1955 movie Summertime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 31, 1984 | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...handles nearly all of Jewel's haunted souls with understated urgency. As the gawky Daphne, Wooldridge is a particular marvel. Eyes wide and full of a startled innocence, she galumphs through life with such sweet diffidence that plainness itself seems radiant. An equally luminous pathos surrounds Dame Peggy Ashcroft's Barbie Batchelor, a sad little figure of baffled devotion who has little to do save muddle through her final days "very tired and old and far from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Grand Elegy to the Raj | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: Governers: Republicans Gain But They Remain A Rare Breed | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...Preciacts Arkansos E--Bill Clinton (D)* 315.594 64 61 Elwood Freeman (R) 179.209 36 Delaware William Quillen (D) 107.736 45 100 E--Michael Castle (R) 133.892 55 Indiana Wayne Townsend (D) 889.906 47 86 E--Robert Orr (R) 995.526 53 Missoun Kenneth Rothman (D) 569.343 41 86 E--John Ashcroft (R) 810.642 59 Montana E--Ted Schwinden (D)* 68.875 70 29 Pat Goodover (R) 26.222 27 New Hampshire Chris Spirou (D) 56.992 34 61 E--John Sununu (R)* 111.283 66 North Carolina Rufus Edmisten(D) 757.479 45 80 E--James Martin (R) 918.769 55 North Dakota E--George Sinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gubernatorial Races | 11/7/1984 | See Source »

...points ahead of Democrat Wayne Owens, 47, a former Congressman. Owens has been reduced to pleading for votes as a check on the G.O.P.'s possession of every top elective job in the state. In Missouri, where the incumbent is ineligible to run again, Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, is locked in a close contest with Lieutenant Governor Kenneth Rothman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Races Are Tough | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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