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...senior members the best scenes. As Frank's wife, Irene Papas has a rare, abiding femininity that has taken on middle age and won. Luther Adler invests his role with the kind of craft and authority that make for supporting-actor awards. Douglas, fitted out in a push-broom mustache and dyed hair, is the most convincing, perhaps because the role of a prideful, aging bullock who clings to an old persona hits astonishingly close to home...
...WITCHES' SECRET, by Frances Charlotte Allen, illustrated by Laura Jean Allen (Harper & Row; $3.50), turns the traditional scare story upside down. Here, three lovable broom ladies, after promising the mayor not to play any more pranks, cast one final happy spell...
...series of melancholy pools of radiance. For some time, Poons' dots have been growing larger and more transparent. Now, in addition, he creates a varied, blotchy background by pouring his paint directly onto a canvas spread on the floor, then sweeping the color around with a broom...
...seriously, the painter (brilliantly played by Charles Denner) falls deeply in love with her. Julie is cognizant of her potential for redeeming these men, but she painfully subordinates any feelings of mercy to her solitary desire for revenge. "I am," she says to her third victim suffocating in a broom closet, "already dead. I died when David died." Her love comprised the whole of her life and, once destroyed, she allows no possibility for individual renaissance...
...tongue missing) and a floppy white yachtsman's hat (a 58th-birthday present from his wife ten days earlier), he carted three bags of soiled linen to the laundry, then, pausing occasionally to consult a neat shopping list, picked up gold-covered paper matchbooks, a dustpan, a broom, clothes hooks, cleanser and a package of frozen pureed spinach...