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The Carter Administration's agreement to settle the A T& T case was a stunning anticlimax. Since the suit against the world's largest corporation (assets: $125 billion) was originally filed in 1974, the Justice Department has spent $10 million preparing its case, and A T& T has...
The Elephant Man. David Lynch transforms the story of John Merrick-the noble ogre of Victorian England-into a grim, lovely fairy tale. John Hurt inhabits Merrick with grace and spirit in the year's sweetest movie.
WITHOUT THE FOUR YEARS of solid research behind it, Wayward Reporter might have turned into a dry, formal investigation of modern journalistic writing from 19th-century mush to Hearstian sensationalism to the terse prose on the front page of today's New York Times. At times, Sokolov seems a little...
Someone ought to inform the Rev. Jerry Falwell [Nov. 17] that if Jesus had wanted his followers to support Republicans, he would have ridden into Jerusalem on an elephant.
Ultimately, The Elephant Man is a cheat. It demands emotional intensity from the audience, but offers very little of its own.