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...could be capable of such an act? What does the murderer hope to gain? What are the causes of such deranged behavior? These are the questions occupying police, psychologists and psychiatrists as they try, mostly without success, to form a psychological portrait of the poisoner...
...years that followed have been kinder than this self-portrait would suggest. He has grown comfortably into his looks. Graying hair softens features that once seemed mismatched. He is tall (a shade over 6 ft.) and broad through the shoulders and chest. His arms are longer than strictly required. He manages to appear both rawboned and delicate at the same time...
...Hong Kong, where the most authoritarian portrait on public display shows the eyes of an anonymous Asian woman commanding citizens not to litter, the rising if still distant threat of reunification has hit like a typhoon. After Thatcher's visit, share prices on Hong Kong's stock market crashed 21% last week, while the Hong Kong dollar dropped by 4½%to U.S. $0.16, a new low. To deepen the gloom, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, John Bremridge, announced last week that the colony's economy has been faring far worse this year than expected. Real...
...last Friday at the newly renovated Brattle theater, captures Herzog and his crew fighting both to create a movie and retain their health and sanity while entrenched in the primitive jungle. Beware of dismissing this movie merely because it falls into the category of "documentary." It is a fascinating portrait of a director straddling the border between sanity and the depths beyond, while challenging himself and nature through the jungle...
Some of the new factory-outlet centers are no longer off-the-rack spartan. In Florida, the Orlando Factory Outlet Mall, which opened last year on the road between the city and Walt Disney World, offers, in addition to the usual stores, an antique-costume portrait center, a time-share condominium sales office, a Pac-N-Send mailing service and a video-game room. Traditional retailers hope that the factory outlets will fade away with the return of better economic times. Perhaps, but in the meantime, factory outlets will continue to be today's fashion...