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...make her peace with her father. Her account of Bergen's decline and death is touching, and the reader feels a real victory when at last she is able to tell the old entertainer she loves him. Her marriage four years ago to French Director Louis Malle (Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby) was the act of an adult, not a rebellious daughter, and fittingly she says little more than that it is warm and strong. -By John Skow
...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...
Other scholars scheduled to speak at the service included Benjamin Brown, former director of the CFIA fellows program; Eugene Skolnikoff, director of the MIT center; and MIT professor Lucien...
This year, though, Weicker is caught in the middle. With Moffett, a liberal's liberal, on the left and Conservative Party candidate Lucien DiFazio on the right, the middle of the road is a delicate line. Being moderate, Weicker says, used to mean fence-sitting. Now it means "getting it from both sides...
...cuts. Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick, a legitimate characterization. The polls have offered contradictory predictions. And there is also an X factor confusing everyone's calculations: the presence of Conservative Party Candidate Lucien DiFazio, who is positioned to siphon off some of Weicker's support. "If DiFazio pulls 7%," said a Democratic campaign strategist last week, "it's Toby...