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...this week's story, which was supervised by Senior Editor Martha Duffy, Sheraton received help from some willing gourmets. San Francisco Bureau Chief William Blaylock, who reported on the California culinary renaissance, had come there straight from that mecca of world-class cuisine, Paris. Says Blaylock: "My appreciation for simpler, 'reborn' American food emerged unhesitatingly, in large part because of my three years of wading through classic cassoulets, terrines and flaming crêpes...
...each point of view. The believer is Mother Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), head of a convent of cloistered nuns, whose young charge Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly) has been accused of strangling with its umbilical cord a baby to whom she had secretly given birth. The troubled cynic is Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda), a lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist determined to discover if Agnes is mad or a murderer, a harlot or a modern saint. The outsider is the moviegoer, who can have a pretty grand time monitoring a tug of wills between the mother superior and the shrink, while contemplating the place...
...public power scuffle on the school's board between the Old Guard and new benefactors. Dunning does little speculating about future problems. Wisely, she records the past and observes the present in clean prose and with the same eloquent good manners that mark a well-schooled dancer. --By Martha Duffy...
Hansen alleges that it was District Attorney Martha Coakley’s aspiration to run for U.S. Senate—a post she was eyeing if Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) won his bid for the presidency—which led her to overcharge Pring-Wilson with first degree murder...
Holm, who became Maxwell’s mentor, was only allowed to teach theory, since Martha Hill—the director of dance at Julliard—did not want her students picking up any of the provocative movements Holm had become known for at the Bennington Dance Festival in the 1930s. Since Holm technically could not instruct dance or choreography, Maxwell locked herself in a room with her teacher in order to show Holm her work...