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...with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager queen. With her raucous voice and laugh, Taylor brings this character to exuberant life. When she says, after Burnett saves her from a suicide attempt, "I'm the Titanic. She's the lifeboat," it is funny and poignant. The switch here is that Taylor gets the jokes, while Burnett broods...
...good idea and some knowledge of computer programming. But as the market has expanded beyond the electronics hobbyist to the businessman, homeowner and student, software companies have discovered that they cannot survive on technology alone. They must develop skills in marketing, distribution and advertising. Says Edward Currie, president of Lifeboat Associates, a leading software publisher: "The software industry is turning into a cosmetics industry. In cosmetics, you worry about the box first, then the bottle inside it and, finally, the contents of the bottle. The same thing is happening in software...
...Prime Minister played to crowds in Wales and hopscotched around England, even stopping at a Royal Navy lifeboat station, Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69, was also out campaigning, putting in tiring ten-stop days around the country. In Surrey the silver-haired scholar hugged a black woman, was cheered by some unemployed youths and pledged to work for an end to fox hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then...
...about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...
Easier to verify was the news of a British Harrier assault on an Argentine fishing boat, the Narwal. Argentina first disclosed the attack, charging the British not only with bombing and strafing the boat southeast of the Falklands but also with attacking the vessel's lifeboat after the 26-member crew had abandoned ship. British officials first denied the incident, then agreed that an attack had taken place. They said that 25 crewmen, 14 of whom were wounded, were taken prisoner and that one Argentine, killed in the incident, was buried at sea. The British, who denied machine-gunning...