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...proportions of a national melodrama. During the three-month trial, as her precious privacy and guarded respectability were stripped away, the pitiably proud former headmistress of Virginia's Madeira School for girls became the centerpiece of a passionate drama-the old battle of the sexes, fraught with newer, feminist tonalities. In the end, the outcome seemed almost predetermined: the jury found Harris guilty of second-degree murder, of shooting Dr. Tarnower with the intent to cause his death...
Fuentes attributes Latin American experimentalism with the traditional novelistic form--especially the breaking away from chronological narrative to newer grounds where past, present, and future exist simultaneously--to Latin America's unique pattern of economic development. It is a modernization process where there has not been unilinear growth as in Western industrialized countries...
...newer technique, cyrosurgery, cures a simple skin cancer by freezing the tumor and allowing it to fall off easily...
Since Dallas, Lorimar has launched three more sexy serials, and two of them are paying off. Knots Landing, which spun the Ewings' gray-sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
...many consumers the high interest rates are quickly destroying the American dream of an ever increasing standard of living, including bigger homes, flashier cars and newer gadgets. Nowhere is this more evident than in the housing market. Just a decade ago, many Americans expected to own their own homes; today far fewer...