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...Marple survives for at least a while longer An unpublished manuscript in which she too passes on is locked in the Christie vault, along with the ultimate whodunit, Dame Agatha's autobiography By refusing to publish it during her lifetime, Dame Agatha has assured herself one last, suspenseful hurrah...
...Last Hurrah, Friday and Saturday...
...this film adaptation of Steinbeck's short novel. Steinbeck's work is an engrossing study of human dependency and love, and the often tragic results of an unequal friendship (long before Midnight Cowboy.) And also for those who like to argue whether the book was better, The Last Hurrah is at Lehman Hall this weekend. Most people think that's the name of an overpriced steakhouse; actually it's the title of Edwin O'Connor's elegiac novel about an aging lrish pol. In the movie, Spencer Tracy plays the grand old mayor of a grand old New England city...
...state advanced the city $200 million in welfare funds; that will keep the city solvent at least through this week while Beame pursues other means of coming up with the $800 million that the city needs to pay its bills through June and thus avoid a financial last hurrah. Beame in his emotional TV appearance called for a congressional investigation of why New York's giant banks are refusing to underwrite new issues of city bonds, and New York Congressmen are going to start such a probe. Though the banks have reasons-the city's habit of borrowing...
Black Sunday, a national bestseller by Thomas Harris (Putnam; $7.95), supposes an attempt to obliterate a Super Bowl football game (hurrah!) along with (alas!) both teams, the TV play-by-play and color men, beer vendors, pigeons, Pinkertons and some 100,000 spectators, including the President of the U.S. The sociopath who plans this provocation is not an Arab but a defecting American named Lander, who went sour while serving time as a P.O.W. in North Viet Nam. Now he pilots the advertising blimp that floats (aha!) above every important football contest. To get all the plastic explosive he needs...