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Though Pumpkin Eater in outline resembles a compendium of womanly woes, it plays like a house afire, almost invariably ignited by Actress Bancroft, who could probably strike dramatic lightning from a recitation of tide tables. Having tea at the zoo, she quietly distills despair while a prurient cuckold (James Mason) spews ugly revelations about her husband and his wife. Cornered under a hair dryer at a beauty salon, she blanches, feeling her own anguish cruelly parodied in a chance conversation with a venomous, cast-off drudge. And her spectacular scenes with Finch, pitched against the din of a more...
...Logic is logic, that's all I can say concerning your "compendium of curious coincidences" [Aug. 21]. Lincoln's nickname contains three letters, Kennedy's four. Abe's wife was Mary Todd, but not Jack's. Whereas Lincoln was shot in a theater in April by means of a pistol, Kennedy was shot in a car in November by means of a rifle. The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald have no initial letter in common. An attempt was made to impeach the Tennessee Johnson, but not the Texas Johnson, despite the fact...
Wherever collectors of odd facts congregate these days, the conversation almost invariably turns to the uncanny parallels in the lives-and deaths-of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. How ever it started, it has added up to a compendium of curious coincidences. Last week even the G.O.P. Congressional Committee Newsletter, with a circulation among 15,000 Republicans, joined in the game with its own list. There were no political motives, explained Newsletter Editor Edward Neff. "We just thought of them as interesting." Among the fascinating facts...
...cold dawn, wearing a wet blanket and an Indian headdress, and surrounded by a ring, of torches, symbolically extinguished. Needless to say, he feels very old, tired, embarrassed, and drives off determined to forget the whole experience. Not a bad idea, since Crazy Desire is really just a compendium of childish whims...
...Navasky's conviction that the U.S. needs a political-satire magazine has sustained Monocle this long. But Navasky's faith appears to be ebulliently obstacle-proof. In 1962, with the magazine at death's door as usual, Navasky launched The Outsider's Newsletter, a weekly compendium of fanciful news items (POLICE DOG MADE HONORARY MISSISSIPPI CITIZEN) that loses more than its parent does. Just this week Monocle's editor announced a plan that should significantly enlarge the annual deficit. From now on, said Navasky, Monocle will reach its 20,000 paid readers every other month...