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Squeezed into eight relatively succinct hours, Arthur Hopcraft's adaptation tidies up the sprawling novel a bit. One regrets the loss of a few of Dickens' colorful minor characters, along with much of his humor. (Where, for instance, is Mrs. Jellyby, that ardent philanthropist who ignores her sorry children while campaigning to help the natives of Borrioboola-Gha?) Bleak House was, perhaps, not meant to be quite as bleak as this...
...walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were O.K., but I lost my daughter." Simpson had dropped...
After three hours of heated discussion, police officers dragged Mandela from the two-bedroom house and drove her outside the district limits. She returned to Soweto early the next morning, and was arrested by security officials and forcibly carried away In Washington, U.S. officials expressed concern "that Mrs. Mandela's arrest could lead to further escalation of violence in South Africa," and called for her immediate release. A Johannesburg judge charged Mandela with violating her restriction order but released her without requesting bail. A trial is scheduled for Jan. 22. Said Mandela: "I am charged with a crime that does...
...backing of anti-U.S. resolutions at the United Nations and its support for Nicaragua's lefist Sandinista regime. De la Madrid reminded Reagan that the U.S. and Mexico must sometimes take separate paths. Said he: "Our political and economic reality cannot be identical." THE PHILIPPINES No More Mrs. Nice...
...what is the alternative to a movie kiss? In Sleeper, Woody Allen had his characters at a futuristic cocktail party pass around a shiny metal sphere that when fondled produced a narcissistic ecstasy. In Tom Jones, Tom and the ribald Mrs. Waters consume a memorable dinner that is the moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing...