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...ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard to shake. --By Richard Zoglin
Wolff's time is the '70s, a decade of convalescence, navel watching and delayed-stress syndrome. In Soldier's Joy, one veteran of the lost war tries to get another to surrender a rifle after he threatens to shoot himself. The would-be savior complains about the confusion "back in the world," vet talk for home. But he too is deeply disturbed. "You think you've got problems," he says to the distraught man. "There's nothing wrong with you that a little search-and-destroy wouldn't cure...
...with sex," observes Pat Berg, director of a Chicago program for homeless youth. "It's attempting in a perverse sense to get some security and nurturing needs met . . . It's like when kids get puppies." Finally, there is little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them if they did." For the lower socioeconomic groups, she says, "it's the big shoulder shrug. They don't get abortions. They don't use contraception...
...Sport Some occasions of joy, some of wistfulness, and one that is both: Howard Cosell leaves...
...Bobby Flay's Grilling for Life The U.S. grill guru turns his attention to healthy cooking, with analysis by nutritionist Joy Bauer...