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...most provocative woman of her time. In the 19th century, as now, her public image was that of a cigar-smoking iconoclast in top hat and trousers, an unabashed libertine of dubious sexual inclinations. She was also the writer whom Dostoyevsky dubbed "the Christian par excellence" and whom Elizabeth Barrett Browning hailed as "the first female genius of any country...
...Laurinda Barrett, as Emilia, deserves a kind word for her prison scene, and Theodore Sorel for his yeoman doubling as a lord a trial officer, and a gentleman...
...whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this genre...
...Schools. Some whites, resigned to the inevitability of public school integration, are making plans to educate their children elsewhere. Says Helen Barrett, whose son will start school in September, "We may just go to Ireland for a couple of years." Ed King of West Roxbury has another solution. "We'll start our own schools," he says. Indeed, some white students are already attending new private schools...
Middle Atlantic's LAURENCE I. BARRETT...