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...wedlock of the middle-aged Bennets, she (Marge Redmond) a worrier and a conniver, he (Richard Kiley) a detached and almost enigmatic amateur scholar. There is the frustrating courtship dance between the Bennets' clever, winsome daughter Elizabeth (Jane Kaczmarek) and the rich Mr. Darcy (Peter Gallagher), both too proud to recognize the inevitability of their union. And there is the misguided infatuation of the Bennets' dim daughter Lydia (Jane Fleiss) with a handsome scoundrel...
...obvious reason for Buckley's conversion is speed. "Writing on the word processor takes less time," he declares. So much less, in fact, that even his professional friends are impressed. "It takes Bill 20 minutes to write a column," says Peter McWilliams, an acquaintance and the author of several best-selling, how-to computer books (The Word Processing Book, The Personal Computer Book). "Word processors were really made...
Horton Foote's screenplay, derived from a legendary teleplay and a theatrical adaptation of it more than three decades ago, is all fragile moods and memories. Director Peter Masterson's style, however, is crushingly realistic. And Page is overwhelming in the worst sense of the word, a steamroller of tics, tricks and mannerisms. She is being mentioned for an Oscar nomination--it would be her eighth--and since she is doing enough acting to fill at least that many pictures right here, she may get it. That her highly theatrical style has almost nothing to do with the craft...
...justice. Said Tutu: "Let us work so that Christmas 1986, unlike Christmas 1985, will be one where all of us, black and white, will be able to say, indeed, 'God is with us.' " It was a prayer that all South Africans could share. --By Janice C. Simpson. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Johannesburg
...Peter Peterson, the Greek hash-house owner's son who rose to the presidency of Bell & Howell before he was 35, and Lewis Glucksman, the Manhattan lamp manufacturer's son who scrapped his way up through Lehman's unprestigious but increasingly profitable stock-and-bond-trading department, might have been born enemies. Peterson emerges as cold, almost oblivious to the people around him. A close associate who may have saved his life during a seizure recalls that Peterson never thanked him. Glucksman was mercurial, an "emotional volcano" in the phrase of a colleague, who might kiss or curse fellow employees...