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Such questions haunt Ian Hamilton's extensive biography of poet Robert Lowell, who confronted all of these dilemmas Born into the wealthy, heritage-ridden Lowell family, he was the only son of a weak-willed father and a domineering mother who made sure he went to the right schools--St Mark's prep. then Harvard. Until his freshman year at college. Lowell had shown only ordinary signs of rebellion against a stifling Boston social order. During that year he became romantically involved with Anne Dick, a 24-year-old cousin of one of his friends, beginning what would...
...into his audiences' unsuspecting brains. Lacking both sides of the old boy's schizophrenic sensibility, Benton can do no more than offer a dispassionate mimicry of someone else's style. There are a few little scares in his film, but nothing to stir our dreams or haunt our memories...
...heavy losses suffered during the early '70s still haunt many investors. Lee Astorino, 34, a gardener in Hawthorne, Calif., began buying stock in 1972, and he even picked a few winners for a while. But the value of his holdings in American Airlines fell from $28 to $7 a share by 1974, and he lost thousands of dollars. After the latest rally began earlier this month, Astorino decided to take another plunge. He paid $4 each for 200 shares of Photo-Control Corp., a maker of specialty camera equipment. As the market gyrated wildly last week, Astorino was very...
Mondale's office has received only a few disapproving telephone calls over his appearance. However, it could come back to haunt him when his presidential campaign begins in earnest. But some political analysts think Mondale made a smart move. Says a staffer at the Democratic National Committee: "Mondale has been in the doldrums. But after a gutsy move like this, people in political circles may start talking about...
...guarantee of the Palestinians' safety was certainly a decision that came back to haunt Washington last week. The exact form in which the guarantee was extended is a matter of considerable dispute. P.L.O. Representative Jamal Sourani told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn that the P.L.O. had received the assurance "in writing from Habib." In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asserted, "I have in hand a document" containing the guarantee; he said he had received it as a condition for agreeing to pull the P.L.O. fighters out of Beirut. In a speech in Jidda...