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...George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894), set in the bohemian Latin Quarter of Paris, the sinister Svengali hypnotizes a tone-deaf gamine named Trilby and transforms her into an exquisite diva who becomes the toast of all Europe. When Svengali dies, so does Trilby's voice. In a two-hour, made-for-television movie titled Svengali, Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone), 19, plays a rock 'n' roll Trilby smoothed into a Streisand by Peter OToole's latter-day Svengali. Foster is on leave this semester from Yale, where she is a sophomore majoring...
...Soviet attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail (C.G.T.), at least twelve of 40 member unions defied instructions to boycott pro-Solidarity demonstrations...
...expanding, astronomers used that ratio to reckon the universe's age and size. Trouble was that the Hubble constant proved notably fickle, as succeeding generations kept measuring the distance of different celestial bodies and getting different results. Admits Allan Sandage, who is using the new 100-in. Du Pont telescope at Las Campanas, Chile, to make his own measurements of the constant: "Everyone in this game is in disagreement...
...battle early between U.S. Steel and Mobil for control of Marathon Oil. U.S. Steel last week seemed assured of victory in its takeover bid, estimated to cost $6.15 billion, the second largest corporate coupling in U.S. history. (The largest merger was the $7.5 billion merger of Conoco and Du Pont in 1981.) Workers began to prepare checks for the 17,000 selling Marathon shareholders just hours after Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger gave a green light to U.S. Steel's offer of $125 a share for 51% of Marathon's stock. Two months ago, the oil company...
...Kempinski's play is a melancholy partita-two characters, six scenes-about a brilliant violinist struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis, and the psychiatrist who tries to help her. The plot may seem a tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...