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...midnight on July 16, 1918, in the Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik jailers gunned down the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their 14-year-old hemophiliac son Alexei and his four sisters were all shot. A dubious postscript holds that one of the girls, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, escaped and is still alive...
Love and Anarchy. The least offensive of Lina Wertmuller's movies--her world-view at this point had not yet resolved itself into the cold cynicism which would later pervade Seven Beauties and Swept Away. A sensitive, moving film, marred only by a somewhat confusing and incongrous postscript about the pointlessness of political violence. One thing that does appear fixed already is her hatred of women--fittingly, the entire movie is set in a whorehouse. And in case you can't get enough of Shirley Stolle, the 700 lb. obesity in Seven Beauties, you can catch her in an earlier...
...POSTSCRIPT: In case any of your readers have not seen Affirmative Racism in action, I enclose this quote from the 1975-76 edition of the booklet entitled "Medical School Admissions Requirements," page 302 (on the University of Washington School of Medicine): "Future classes are expected to consist only of Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming residents as well as American Indians, black Americans, and Chicano students regardless of residence...
Harvard hockey added a sour postscript to a surprisingly strong season Saturday night, losing to Cornell, 7-6, in the ECAC consolation game at the Boston Garden...
...postscript: Nickel returned to London by subsonic jet, taking 9½ hr. door to door, including stops in Vienna and Amsterdam. The Concorde carries 100 passengers from London to Bahrain, but only 71 the other way; takeoff temperatures, head winds and weather delays in Europe require more fuel...