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Koch reacts with relative serenity to ugly personal attacks. A bachelor and a defender of civil rights for homosexuals, he has frequently been the target of rumormongers. This summer anonymous stickers showed up on subway cars bearing the punchline: IS NEW YORK READY FOR A GAY MAYOR? Says Koch: "They've been doing that for 14 years. I'm inured to it by now." He is only slightly more irritated by the whispered canard that he is really an Episcopalian. "What a low blow," he chuckles. "But I don't mind so much because...
...most durable costar, Marcello Mastroianni, play the only tenants of a cavernous apartment building who remain at home during the festivities. Antonietta, an ignorant working-class housewife, has stayed behind to clean up the cramped flat she shares with her boorish husband and six kids. Gabriele, a bachelor who is an out-of-work radio announcer and antiFascist, has shut himself in to contemplate his certain confinement by il Duce's henchmen...
...Stoppard. And Stoppard is a pussycat compared with that tiger named Bernard Shaw. like his disciple Bertolt Brecht, Shaw regarded plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer with a blowtorch for a tongue. He yearns to puncture all the hypocritical balloons of civilized life. As for the woman, Ann Whitefield (Carole Shelley), she is a spiritedly fetching minx...
Victims Pay. This spring four men were convicted of rape in Saudi Arabia's Al-Hasa province and sentenced to death. One, a bachelor, was beheaded. The other three were married and guilty of adultery as well as rape. They were buried up to their waists in sand and stoned to death by a mob that used small rocks instead of boulders to prolong their agony. Sometimes the victims pay too. When a German girl was raped by two men a couple of months ago, the judge ordered her flogged "as an accomplice to immorality...
...spry 83, who on June 22 quietly succeeded the late Nathan Knorr to become the fourth leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses. For a century now, this most contentious of faiths has pressed upon an unwilling audience the message that mankind is nearing the End. Franz, a bachelor who has labored in the sect's headquarters since 1920, will not be surprised if he lives to see the destruction of the world's political order in the Battle of Armageddon, which will usher in Christ's 1,000-year reign...