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Gaslight, 4 p.m., 7:45, and Keeper of the Flame, 6 p.m., 9:45, through Saturday; Monkey Business (Marx Brothers), 4, 7, 10 p.m., and Alice in Wonderland (Fields), 5:25, 8:25, 11:25, through Tuesday...
After his death, John Kennedy's spirit grew to something close to the proportions of deity and the eternal flame could hardly contain it. From all appearances, his family and friends are still hoping to capture the presence of J.F.K.'s expansive spirit in I.M. Pei's library structure, before it slips away and fades into history. (Inflation and community criticism have already done away with Pei's imposing glass tabernacle which, perhaps more than anything else, symbolized that captured presence.) As the Kennedy myth explodes or diminishes in the next ten years and scholars come to view his administration...
Lucas Alexander, the doctor who has been Martha's old flame, comes to join her in the Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...
...broadcast fulfills its implicit annual promise to turn into a psychological Le Mans with a few expensive, finely tuned egos successfully negotiating the twists and turns of the three-hour course while a satisfying number of the other entrants crash. There was nothing this year to equal the spectacular flame-out that Marlon Brando arranged in 1973, but a dedicated Oscar addict could pass out a few prizes...
...religion. The Parsis of the New World (as well as a few in India) have also hit on a resolution of the burial problem-apparently without breaking the tenets of their faith-by cremating bodies. As they see it, the use of electric cremation ovens instead of flame does not violate the purity of the sacred element of fire...