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...immediately following Pretoria's imposition of media restraints on Nov. 2, the average daily toll last week rose above five. The statistic was a sharp challenge to the government's contention that without television and camera crews present to incite publicity-hungry blacks to violent heroics, the disturbances would quiet down. As unrest flared in Queenstown and Mamelodi, two black areas that had been relatively calm, the protesters seemed to be indifferent to the absence of reporters...
...Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
...duties in 1981, the author and Brenda, his wife of 46 years, have been spending less time at their modern apartment in Toronto and more at their house on 150 acres of land near Lake Ontario. This haven does more than satisfy an author's need for peace and quiet. A vast inland sea once covered the property, and Davies can refresh his conviction that the world is full of surprises every time he finds a fossil in his garden...
...last it's on to the geopohtically squared circle: a screaming crowd (except for the Politburo in its box, deadly quiet), pounding music, blows that resound as if someone were holding batting practice with watermelons. Can Rocky weather the terrible punishment of the early rounds? Will he get in some good licks for poor beleaguered capitalism? Will the assembled proletariat discern the greatness of his spirit and, setting aside all propaganda (and KGB) considerations, start cheering for a democratic working man? Will Rocky get the opportunity to make, of all things, a plea for détente? Only if you have...
...Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, was a CIA translator and analyst for the past 33 years. According to the FBI, Chin admitted to spying for China for at least that long. Quiet and mannerly, he apparently reaped $140,000 for his surreptitious services over the years...