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Although Rendell's views on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's foreign and economic policies tilt to the left, she sounds deeply conservative when she laments the steady disappearance of rural England. She attributes her alertness to these issues, and her deft handling of nuances of social class, to her long association with the rolling East Anglia plains near Colchester, where she now occupies a 16th century farmhouse on twelve acres outside the village of Polstead. A native of East London, where her parents taught school, and then of the near-in Essex suburbs, Rendell has maintained at least...
Director Cronenberg (The Brood, The Dead Zone) tells this story with no compromise but plenty of intelligent compassion. In the film's first half, the edgy romantic comedy is beguiling, especially as played by Goldblum and Davis, two deft charmers who inhabit their roles as if they have comfortably lived there forever. The Faustian tragedy of the second half is underscored by some revolting and riveting special effects. Watch closely for Brundlefly's agile wall climbing. Close your eyes during the hallucinatory sequence in which Cronenberg, as an obstetrician, helps Veronica give birth to a 20-in.-long bouncing baby...
...project posed some unique and vexing challenges. To be in the right place at the right time for sweeping views, photographers stationed themselves on wharves, docks, boats, helicopters and even blimps around Liberty Island. Obtaining pictures of brilliant fireworks bursting above a completely lighted Statue of Liberty required deft calculation of proper exposures, plus a certain amount of luck. Finally, the endeavor called for printing single photographs across multiple pages, necessitating the convoluted folding of outsize pages into the rest of the magazine...
...under theguiding hands of the faculty. Will any of us everforget John Finley '28 in his waltz across thestage as he described Agamemnon, (he laterdescribed an Eliot House senior as a cross betweenAchilles and Harry Truman), pivoting as he reachedstage end and swirling the cord of his microphonein a deft...
...Soviet official made an unprecedented appearance before a House committee Thursday to give Moscow's view of events. In a deft and tough- minded performance, Vitali Churkin, 34, second secretary of the Washington embassy, offered little new information but acknowledged that the crisis was not yet over. "Definitely there has been an accident which has not been liquidated yet and theoretically poses a threat to people outside the Soviet / Union," Churkin said. "We are still trying to manage the situation." He added that the Soviets initially withheld news of the disaster because they wanted to know the extent...