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...hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal rapist is loose (Screenwriter Heims doesn't miss a trick) and, good heavens!, he looks just like the ne'er-do-well nephew (Richard Thomas), who turns out to be hiding in the laundry room and prowling the corridors at night. Under all this pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Northern Gothic | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...West Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1972 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...blind singer and the melancholy solo of a reed flute, they threw off their voluminous black cloaks, symbols of the tomb that they believe encases the soul. Slowly and gracefully they began to revolve, their long white skirts billowing into circles. Gradually they extended their arms, one palm turned heavenward to receive divine grace, the other toward earth, symbolically dispensing the grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whirling Mystics | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Married. Ken Venturi, 41, U.S. Open golf champion in 1964, now the pro at a Palm Springs, Calif., country club; and Beau Wheat, 38, restaurant hostess; both for the second time; in Cathedral City, Calif., where Frank Sinatra, after giving away the bride, hosted a celebrity-studded reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1972 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...ranch. In years to come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Presidential Xanadu | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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