Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. David Birney, 33, and Meredith Baxter, 26, stars of Bridget Loves Bernie, television's ill-fated rehash of Abie's Irish Rose; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Although on the screen Bridget was a Catholic and Bernie a Jew, the couple are both Protestants; they were wed in a traditional Presbyterian ceremony...
...Bishop was very personally involved with a great many undergraduates," Glen W. Baxter, lecturer on East Asian Studies and a long time friend of Bishop, said yesterday. "The students were crazy about him because he really put himself out for them...
What gives the evening a high polish is the cast. Anne Baxter plays the Italian princess and the former mistress with a likable and knowing broadness. Hume Cronyn's cigar-smoking millionaire sounds a bit too much like George Burns, but his Hugo is a masterpiece of foxy pomposity. Best of all is Jessica Tandy, first as the harridan in Maud and then as the great man's dry, abused wife. She endows the woman with an odd gallantry that Coward himself may have possessed...
...film about second sight: that means about another way of looking at things. From the first sinister zoom into the surface of a pond broken by drizzle, we are already captured by the sudden fracturing of the reflected image. In their cozy country house in England, John and Laura Baxter are working quietly when John suddenly breaks a piece of glass, cuts himself. Blood creeps like some blotted gargoyle over the face of a color slide--it shows the interior of a Venetian church he is restoring. Outside, their little girl has just drowned, and her red slicker is floating...
Manhattan Psychiatrist James Baxter argues that such roundabout reasoning is contradictory. Nevertheless, he says, the book is appealing because "a bedrock of respect for oneself is essential, and today we are rampant with self-recrimination. The U.S. is having a crisis of conscience unparalleled since the Civil...