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...portrayals of embattled, strong-willed women (in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart) won her two Academy Awards and forever erased her flibberti-Gidget, Flying Nun image. At first glance, Sally Field, 38, seemed to be mining the same emotional vein in Murphy's Romance, the new movie she made in Arizona with James Garner. It is about a divorcée who moves to a small Western town to take over a horse farm with her twelve-year-old son. But wait, this is no grim battle with mean local bosses or foreclosing bankers. "It's a lighter film...
...years Gaddis taught, lived on grants and wrote literature for business and industry: annual reports, speeches for executives, memorandums. In 1975 he reappeared with JR, a lengthy, knowledgeable satire about an eleven-year-old boy who becomes a corporate tycoon. JR won that year's National Book Award for Fiction, and Gaddis went back to doing whatever it is literary comets do on their elliptical journeys between publication dates...
DIED. Joan Wilson, 56, TV producer who kept even blasé viewers riveted to their sets on Sunday evenings with the British mini-series she imported from 1973 on for PBS's Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece Theater, including such classics as Upstairs, Downstairs; I, Claudius; and last season's The Jewel in the Crown;of cancer; in Boston...
...others' answers. Responses to questions about sexual, familial and business dilemmas can be jonly yes, no or depends. A player may bluff (or lie, to be more scrupulously plainspoken). If he is challenged, debates about whether the answer was honest are settled by a vote among all players, who award halo cards for sincerity or pitchforks for deception. The real action of Scruples is in the conversation, disagreement and insight the game inspires. "It's a good way to get people to talk about things they ordinarily wouldn't," says New Jersey Stockbroker Michael Deutsch, 39. "All of us make...
...happened then and, more important, of how we have been affected since, Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt set out on a 20,000-mile journey that took him from Los Alamos in New Mexico to the Pacific island of Tinian and to Hiroshima. The assignment was very different from his award-winning TIME cover story of Jan. 11, 1982, on "Children of War." That unique exploration of the thoughts and feelings of children growing up on the world's battlegrounds was the writer's own invention. But the Hiroshima story, says Rosenblatt, "is a historical event, seen differently by practically everyone...