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Hell, as it turns out, hath a lot more fury than a woman scorned-at least if the woman is Kathleen Turner. The bassoon-voiced actress, starring on Broadway in Indiscretions (a revival of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles), was the only member of the show's five-person...
As a guest at Harvard, I have refrained from commenting on local controversies in The Crimson. But the senior editorial board, by cancelling the Bloom County comic strip, has moved me to come to the defense of truth and justice. The specific strip to which the board objected in no...
For others megamoola can be, literally, an embarras de richesse. Novelist Stephen King, 29, who in three years and three books (Carrie, Salem's Lot and his latest, The Shining) has deposited $2 million in advances, says plaintively: "Somebody ought to give a correspondence course on what to do...
Since the grill's gala inaugural in June, Spa business has tripled. Starting Monday, Bartley will also offer breakfast on his redoubtable grill; for the grease-weary this may be close to an embarras de richesse.
EXETER: PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon), suspense a la Francaise, offers brilliant color shots of Italy and the Adriatic; Alain Delon manipulates capable cast (including the luscious Marie de la Foret) as he attempts "le crime parfait." The dialogue is marred only by a linguistic "embarras de richesse." A fast-paced...