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Your article "The Things She Did for Love" about the trial of Jean Harris misquoted me [Feb. 9]. I said, "All she needs is a chance to get up there and tell the truth . . . and then it will be a great day for American justice and this Marine" (not "the Marines"). I can assure you that the Marine Corps is in no way affected by the outcome of my mother's trial...
Soyinka, author of "Kongi's Harvest" and "The Lion and the Jewel," was detained by the Nigerian government during the seventies for his political activities. He spoke as a guest of the annual Theodore Spencer memorial lecture series, which has, in the past, invited T.S. Eliot and Jean Renoir...
Those who agreed included Jean C. MacDowell '84: "A lot of these things tend to separate Third World "students from the rest of the University." Others agreed a center would be "divisive...
...Spielberg's Close Encounters, it was, fittingly enough, that of the starry-eyed scientist who looked to the sky with an unbridled, childlike innocence. These hyper-intelligent jellyfish aliens glided out of the Mother Ship, and there was the benevolent Truffaut, signalling good will and smiling his beatific smile. Jean Luc Godard sneered and said the man wasn't even a director. Truffaut, the gallant one, smiled demurely and said how much he liked Mr. Godard...
...LAST METRO Directed by Frangois Truffaut Screenplay by Frangois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean-Claude Grumberg Here Francois Truffaut does for theater people what he did for film folk in 1973's Day for Night: he makes charming sense of their idiosyncrasies in a story that combines amused tolerance for their odd ways with a tender regard for their idealism. The earlier film showed how a movie company on location seals itself off from the outside world and creates its own vivid reality. The Last Metro focuses on a theatrical company trying to operate in German-occupied Paris during...