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...epic novel has intrigued and defied the efforts of such talented screenwriters and directors as Harold Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann...
...Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury ∙5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin ∙The Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose ∙The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton ∙Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon
...estimated 30% increase in store traffic as compared with last year has created three-deep layers of customers around display cases and has made parking spaces as scarce as Cabbage Patch dolls. Said Edward Brennan, chairman of the Sears merchandise group, after touring a company store in Oak Brook, Ill.: "It was wall-to-wall people. It made me feel great...
...freshly fashioned displays of stylish clothes and jogging gear, modern furniture and gourmet cookware. While the likes of Bloomingdale's and Neiman-Marcus have long merchandised their wares with flair, the redesign and reorganization are a revolutionary departure for Sears. Says Joe Fragale, operating manager of the Oak Brook, Ill., store: "We had so many people think they were in the wrong store, we put up a sign YES! THIS IS SEARS." The company is betting heavily on the success of its new look. Twelve of the stores have opened in time for Christmas, and 99 more will...
...What is more, it endures. Your Carmen has survived music-hall travesties, ballets, jazz versions and movies. It will survive the undeniable brilliance of Peter Brook...