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Formerly a student at the Graduate School of Design, Webster was last seen at Logan Airport on November 28, 1981, after returning from Glen Ridge, N.J., where she was celebrating Thanksgiving with her family...
...Mountains of the Moon, John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) is just a few days out on his first trek into the wilderness when he gets a spear through his cheek, and a messy, bloody business it is. Before the movie ends, his partner, the celebrated Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin), suffers a vividly portrayed case of cellulitis as well as a degrading imprisonment by a tribe not thrilled at being discovered by civilization. The movie strongly hints at a homosexual bond between the two men -- at least until they fall into an unseemly squabble over who actually discovered the source...
...obstacle to Weld could be the enthusiasm with which the Republican ideologues will sacrifice victory for a strong ideological stance," says Glen S. Koocher '71, a Cambridge Republican and a convention delegate...
...readers and scholars would like to ask him this question directly, plus several zillion others. But Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is not, never has been, available for interviews. What can definitively be known about him has long since been tracked down. He was born May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, N.Y., into an old, distinguished New England family; one ancestor founded several towns in Massachusetts; another served as the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford. Pynchon graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1953, enrolled at Cornell University, took time out to serve in the Navy, returned to college...
David Mamet's principal occupation is writing bruising plays (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow) and film scripts (The Verdict, The Untouchables). Not surprisingly, the characters in these works are defined by what they do, not what they say. If their words count, it is because Mamet counts their words, using as few as possible to make his point and move his plot...