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...Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face), Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just completed his 77th film, Ghost Story, which is scheduled for release in December, recently declared: "Much of what we did in the old days was junk. I don't share the intense nostalgia for those films that some people...
Such visions have blinked back to the public mind in recent weeks, since Israel buried Iraq's nuclear reactor and defended its action on the ground of "Never again." It referred to the Holocaust, which is Israel's frame of reference generally-the ghost of annihilation that shapes much of its foreign policy, temperament and attitude toward its neighbors. Two weeks ago, the Holocaust's survivors convened in Israel to keep the memory awake, in some cases to search for friends and relatives from whom they were torn away in places like Belsen, Auschwitz and the other...
...that big house, coming to terms with the fact that he left both legs behind in Viet Nam. But the newest play, which should have been the first, chronologically, just meanders, with no discernible destination. A telegram announces the death of Timmy, for instance, and Timmy's ghost (David Ferry) appears onstage to explain in interminable detail how he was blown to pieces on Saipan. Shakespeare pulled the same corny trick in Hamlet, but his ghost had a purpose. Wilson's does...
There have been frequent derailments. After a couple of ragged but promising early albums, Jeffreys cut a great song, Wild in the Streets-about those mystery kids-and put out an album called Ghost Writer that was one of the standouts of the '70s. Great things were predicted. Subsequent records were like Hansel's trail of crumbs through the woods, attempts to clear away stylistic underbrush and find the path back...
DIED. Charles W. Yost, 73, who participated in the San Francisco conference that founded the U.N. in 1945 and then, nearly a quarter of a century later, became the first career diplomat to serve as U.S. ambassador to the organization (1969-71); of cancer; in Washington. Nicknamed "the Gray Ghost" because of his mild, unassuming manner, he was a seasoned troubleshooter whose service over four decades in capitals from Vienna to Vientiane earned him the Foreign Service's highest honor, the title of Career Ambassador...