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...upholsterer or an undertaker. Writing, he said, was just a job like any other, and putting words on paper to make stories was no different from stitching leather to make shoes. His real career, he maintained, was in the post office, where he worked for 33 years, rising from clerk to executive. (It was Trollope who introduced the street-corner mailbox.) Indeed, his failure finally to become the second in command, the highest post he could hope to achieve, was more galling to him than the barbs of all the literary critics in London...
...Cuba. · Died. Edward J. Barrett, 77, powerful Illinois Democratic factotum for four decades until his 1973 federal conviction for bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion; in Chicago. Barrett, who served as Illinois State Treasurer and Secretary of State in the '30s and '40s, became Cook County clerk in 1955, succeeding his longtime crony, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley...
Through the accumulation of such glancing, oblique details (sensitively photographed by Renato Berta), Goretta builds up a pattern of shapely ironies. Pierre impulsively confides in one of his intended victims, a post office clerk named Nelly Wagner, and she ultimately becomes his mistress and accomplice. Yet, credibly and touchingly. Pierre remains devoted to his wife -Nelly is only his partner in crime. When, as they must, the police catch up with Pierre, his baffled, tearful wife remonstrates, "I'm strong too!" In trying to make up for his father's mistake, he has only repeated...
Goretta. 47. was previously represented in this country only by The Invitation (1975), a Chekhovian study of a disintegrating office party. In Wonderful Crook, the actors readily grasp the same light-handed spirit. Marlene Jobert as Nelly may be a little too refined for a post office clerk, and Gerard Depardieu as Pierre may be low-keyed to the point of occasional inaudibility: but both, along with Dominique Labourier as the wife, give performances of great charm...
...perquisites, Douglas assumed the offensive, advancing the novel idea that a retired Justice retains the right to issue opinions in court cases of his choosing. Serious or not, Douglas made his point: he now operates with a secretary, a Library of Congress researcher, a driver-messenger, and a law clerk, who assists in rewriting his latest book...