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Rarely have cast and characters seemed so ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard...
...complain because he negotiated with his daughter's kidnapers [WORLD, Nov. 4], might allow a relative to be slaughtered rather than give in to guerrilla demands. But I suspect their toughness would quickly give way to pleading if their own heads were placed on the block. John White Brookhaven, Miss. Faltering Philippines...
...first strike was launched in October. The missile was a 30-second television commercial showing a childlike drawing of stick figures, a simple house and a glum-faced sun. A Little Miss Muffet voice chirps, "I asked my daddy what this Star Wars stuff is all about. He said that right now we can't protect ourselves from nuclear weapons, and that's why the President wants to build a Peace Shield." Chunky red missiles begin to rain down, but they harmlessly disintegrate (pop! pop!) when they hit a bluish , Crayola arc in the sky. Presto, the arc becomes...
While most American farmers are suffering the effects of the worst a agricultural depression since the 1930s, the catfish farmers in Humphreys County, Miss., are content and prosperous. That is because the catfish business is booming. Mississippi accounts for some 80% of the nation's crop, and Humphreys County is the catfish capital. This year an estimated 185 million lbs. of catfish will be processed, more than four times the 1980 level. The commercial value of the crop is about $255 million...
...News and Sports President Roone Arledge's terse farewell was written with a dry eye, but the cameramen will miss Cosell. "One-Take Howard," they called him. He had hoped to become Walter Cronkite or at least Hugh (Downs for a hilarious few weeks in 1975, even Ed Sullivan), but that was so long ago. He will continue on the radio, and he will not be alone. For 41 years, his wife Emmy has stood by him with a devotion that might awe Mother Teresa. Besides that, he has all the love on the street. --By Tom Callahan