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...There is an appropriate means to deal with one's marital problems -- legal recourse. Not a .357 Magnum," argues former Florida prosecutor Bill Catto. "If you choose to use a gun to end a problem, then you must suffer the consequences of your act." Defense lawyers call it legitimate self-protection when a victim of abuse fights back -- even if she shoots her husband in his sleep. Prosecutors call it an act of vengeance, and in the past, juries have usually agreed and sent the killer to jail. Michael Dowd, director of the Pace University Battered Women's Justice Center...
...week ago at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, over sturgeon, chips and a magnum of champagne (or was it a cup of tea?), the British novelist, Julian Barnes, famous for his inscrutability, consented to let me interview him. The official photographs of Barnes show a darkly brooding, almost Mephistophelean presence. He is in real life, taller and blonder than one would ever dare imagine, inhabiting a room effortlessly and completely. He is neither tweedy like Michael Holroyd nor dandiacal like Tom Wolfe and sits coiled in a too-small armchair. His presence is gently mocking. We tacitly acknowledge...
...understands the infinite allure and necessity of mystery. In an era when too many novelists traffic in meaningless psychobabble, Barnes' novels represent a continent of hope. His work reveals that the obituaries lamenting the death of the novel are premature. A new Barnes' novel demands a magnum of champagne...
...renders the words nearly unintelligible (surtitles, anyone?). Although some of the coups de theatre are striking -- the wheelchair-bound Scientist intones the prologue while floating beyond the rings of Saturn -- too many of Pountney's and Israel's images seem to have washed ashore from Wilson's incomplete magnum opus, the CIVIL warS...
...Vampyr at 4 and 7:55 p.m. and Even Dwarfs Started Small at 6 and 9:55 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1. The Professional: Golgo 13 at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3. Dirty Harry at 1:30 and 8 p.m.; Magnum Force at 3:30 and 10 p.m.; and Sudden Impact at 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4. Macao at 4:15 and 8 p.m. and His Kind of Woman at 5:45 and 9:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5. The Sorceress...