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...time when Onassis enterprises are suffering from an overstock of tankers and a decline in oil shipments, Christina has acted quickly to enlist help at the helm. Even before her marriage, she had taken steps to challenge her late father's will, which left her 49% of the Onassis empire. She deposited the document for probate in Greece, though the family's financial headquarters are located elsewhere. Her goal: to gain the 50% of the estate usually awarded by Greek law to a sole surviving child...
...last, it's becoming just another movie. Seeing Last Tango on the double bill at Harvard Square, even with such a distinguished film as Streetcar, seems a lot like seeing a sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly...
...life of a book is often precarious. Nothing is harder to find than last year's literary flop, and the classics of yesterday seem to drop from view with unsettling regularity. The bottoms of the Great Lakes are said by some to be tiled with the dumped overstock of paperbacks that cannot be obtained anywhere, even in libraries. But there are mysterious cycles of resuscitation too. This fall Viking and Scribners have chosen to revive two marginal but interesting literary remains...
...singer Frank Sinatra is within that genre. Ringo's singing is a good standard by which you can learn to appreciate almost any singer, even whoever is the second worst. Sentimental Journey is so ludicrous that it will be worth buying for a goof, once they start selling the overstock...
...Harvard Bookstore and the Coop are both having sales of publishers' overstock. At the Harvard Bookstore, a photo album of Ranches and Ranch Life in America is reduced from $10 to $4.95 and a biography of Byron's half-sister is down to $2.49 from $6.50. At the Coop, Only to God, the Extraordinary Life of Geoffrey Lowell Cabot has been humbled from $8.98 to $2.98, and Time-Life correspondent Hugh Sidey's reminiscences of the Johnson Administration have tumbled across a $4 credibility gap from...