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...circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party the night of the murder where he and his accomplice entertain David's parents...
...soon as the party gets under way, it becomes clear that Brandon's need to prove his superiority makes him betray ever more obvious indications of his guilt. His choice of the nerve-racked Susan (Sue Kelly) as an accomplice, numerous slips of the tongue, and his unusually fervent advocacy of his ideology of the right to murder makes it inevitable that Rupert will suspect he has sired, more than an academic disciple. After inducing Susan to break down for the fifth time in the party--this time by confronting her with the murder weapon (a piece of rope)--Rupert...
...JUST AS BRANDON'S masochistic nature leads to his downfall. Rupert's horror at learning the consequences of his beliefs makes him recant his carefree talk. But the case with which an ideology can rise and become the belief system of a diseased mind is apparent. Rupert, perhaps seldom dealing with anyone outside of intellectual circles, can freely talk in abstractions of doing away with inferior beings until he is confronted with the concrete implications of his doctrine. The fantasies brewing in Brandon's mind, meanwhile, were no doubt fueled by his lonely urban lifestyle...
...never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week. "I want to get off a 13- to 14-ft. vault." After years of using rigid steel poles, Richards must adjust his skills to the new, springy fiberglass type, so he has been taking coaching tips from his son Brandon, 18, the top U.S. high school vaulter. "It's so different you wouldn't believe it," says Dad. "It's like going from straight tumbling to the trampoline...
...honeymoon. "From . the beginning," she says now, "I was certainly aware that everybody was not just cuckoo about me." She was caricatured as the high-handed queen of a new Gilded Age, making a fuss over fops and froufrous just as a painful national recession was setting in. Muffie Brandon, her social secretary, was joking when she spoke of a "tablecloth crisis" at the White House, but the new concern for elegance was real. The First Lady had some of the Reagans' rich friends, among others, pony up $800,000 to redecorate the private rooms at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then...