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Love with the Proper Stranger has been nominated for five Academy Awards and surely doesn't deserve any. Nevertheless, it is often good fun and, in its more furtive moments, even a little frightening. Clearly, unwanted pregnancy is no picnic, and Hollywood has turned in a powerful plea for chastity or contraception. I'm not sure which...
Baffling Charm. Author Newby peoples his lively books with rogues and innocents and makes both types fresh and fascinating. In The Picnic at Sakkara, he wittily chronicled the blundering adventures of Edgar Perry, a British innocent at large in King Farouk's Egypt. The baffling charm and evasive malevolence of a restive Egypt have never been better evoked, or with more understanding. In The Barbary Light, his hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover...
Miss. Russell has started in more that 10 movies, including "Auntie Mame," "My Sister Eileen," "Mourning becomes Electra," "Picnic," "Wonderful Town," and most recently "Gypsy...
Amid pantings and groanings and the passage of "vast tracts of time," a nameless subhuman progresses on hands and knees across a sea of mud at a fixed rate of 40 yards a year. He is teased by quavery memories of a nightmare picnic and a life with a woman somewhere "above...
...opponents warned that a defender of criminals would surely be soft on criminals before the bar. As if in answer, the new judge acquired the nickname "Sentencing Sam." "Once a criminal has the handcuffs on him, he knows it's not going to be a picnic in Kings County Court today," said Leibowitz. He was especially tough on criminals with previous arrests on their records. "I eliminate a poisonous snake from the community...