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...Americans to find reading materials that don't offer a moral conflict, that don't engage in gratuitous violence, sex and questionable language," says Phyllis Tickle, religion editor of Publishers Weekly. The tribulations of pretty Ariana, the chaste, Bible-memorizing heroine of Janette Oke's A Gown of Spanish Lace (Bethany House; 251 pages; $14.99), have enticed 238,000 hardback-book buyers so far--more than the latest novels by Jackie Collins, John Irving or James Michener. Such outsize commercial success does not register on most newspapers' best-seller lists because religious bookstores are not canvassed...
...thousand pounds from the Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt). The wheres and whyfores are slightly complicated (manifestly humanitarian, of course), but the upshot of the deal is that word of the thousand pounds reaches the ears of the money-hungry English fop, Archibald Cunningham. In between twirling his lace cuffs and showing off his swordsmanship, Cunningham contrives to commit cool murder and expert theft, and the plot is off and running...
...employ. On weekends he retreats to his 17th century chAteau near Chartres and gardens on a grand scale. He makes the rounds of his clients' weddings and christenings, for they are friends too. These women are concerned with details most people have not dreamt of: the sleeve, the lace, the length of the train. One trait he and Hepburn had in common was their intense concentration on perfection. They could learn more from the mirror than common eyesight could perceive...
...LANE, 77, swing-era singer and screen star; in Andover, Massachusetts. The upbeat blond was the most successful of the three performing Lane sisters. After crooning with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Lane appeared in movies such as Four Daughters (1938), opposite a brooding John Garfield, and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), with a frenetic Cary Grant...
...Brookline St., Central Square, Cambridge. 864-0400. Leather and lace Fantasy on Fri., March 17. Alternative and Industrial with DJ Chris on Sat., March...