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This bit of crepuscular enlightenment is Robinson Crusoe glazed with contemporary revisions. Here a hapless Crusoe (Peter O'Toole) is portrayed as an overbearing racist. He may be clever enough at fending for himself alone on the island, but human companionship brings out the worst in him. When Friday (Richard Roundtree) and some cannibal friends wash ashore on "his" island, Crusoe dispatches them one by one. Soon only Friday is left, and Crusoe is about to slay him when the black man instinctively adopts the one pose that will save him from the white man's wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wednesday's Child | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Silver Stud. Tales of Margaret's independent habits also got around. Most recently, the stories have focused on the close companionship between the princess, now 45, and Roderic ("Roddy") Llewellyn, 28, a brewery owner's son. Llewellyn, who sports a silver stud in his left ear and favors jeans and tank tops, recently accompanied Margaret-for the third time in three years-on a vacation to the Caribbean island of Mustique, where the Snowdons keep a four-bedroom retreat. Back home, according to London's News of the World, Roddy has had Margaret out on weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Royal Bust-Up In London | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...affinities for certain foods and repulsion to others are so much a part of you by the time you're in college, several students suggest, it's difficult to alter them. "I came here to meet Westerners," Indian Rekha Nimgade says, and she feels so strongly about their companionship that the presence of Westerners is about the only thing that could drive her into a pizza parlor...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: You Are What You Eat | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...index of his potential contempt and hatred." On a bleak fall day in 1948, he brooded on how to cope with life: "There is nothing anyone can do. It's something that has to be done alone. Even with women, and that's good, there is largely no companionship except for a little while." Steinbeck's third marriage, which lasted from 1950 until his death in 1067, was apparently a happy one, but he never erased the scars of his two divorces. Even though he seldom criticized ex-wives in his letters, the divorces left a residue of bitterness...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Tools of Loneliness | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...MANUAL for the divorcing woman, the diary does provide emotional companionship but fails to tackle the pragmatic problems of divorce. Braudy had a network of friends to drag her out of her depression, she had a talent that merely needed development (she is now editor and writer for Ms. Magazine), and she had no children to hamper her individual development...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: Emerging From the Child-Wife | 11/22/1975 | See Source »

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