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...clearest image of New York is that of a city of struggle and death. Christian finds murder going on all around him, and a constant challenge to become involved in the sea of fighting. Barroom brawls lead to murders as he watches. He and his mistress, Fanny, spy on a murderess who goes through a husband and a lover before the police catch up with her. And, once he becomes attached to her, Fanny also dies. Finally convinced that he will certainly die if he stays any longer, Christian leaves the city, heading back across the ocean...
JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL is Director Claude Chabrol's cunningly engineered fable about a man (Michel Bouquet) who strangles his mistress and is slowly enveloped by guilt. He blurts out a confession to his wife, who understands; he tells his best friend, who is similarly sympathetic. The fact that his friend was also his mistress's husband only adds a little piquancy to the situation. Awash in forgiveness, the hapless killer has only one logical object for his mounting horror and self-loathing. His home, all glass and chrome and odd, abrupt angles, makes a suitably antiseptic moral landscape...
...music companies and half of the proceeds from the sale of their Holmby Hills, Calif., home. -Died. Walter Audisio, 64, World War II Italian Communist partisan leader who claimed credit for gunning down Benito Mussolini in April 1945 as the Fascist dictator attempted to escape into Switzerland with his mistress Claretta Petacci along a country road in northern Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome...
Only in the last, painful year of his life did he taste real happiness with Dora Dymant, a 19-year-old Hebrew scholar. As sympathetic companion, nurse, mistress and daughter figure, she telescoped into those fleeting months all that Kafka had sought in a woman...
Marjorie Merriweather Post lived as queens once were wont to do and now seldom can afford. As heiress to a breakfast-cereal fortune and founder of the General Foods empire, Mrs.Post reigned for most of her years as the grande dame of American high society and regal mistress of a life-style evocative of the lost opulence of Victorian empires. Last week, at her Georgian estate in Washington, D.C., Marjorie Post died quietly of a heart attack at age 86, and with her death a gilt-edged volume of American history came...