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...think that's true," organizer Rebecca Smith said yesterday. "I think that it's important for us to keep on pressuring them until they do something about the situation...
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is "sheer nonsense," opined Author Rebecca West. For one thing, young girls in love do not go to their first balls in a "state of lust" like hussars, she argued. The occasion: a 75th anniversary poll by London's Times Literary Supplement of 43 writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring...
Today: HITCHCOCK'S Sabotage at 7:45 and Murder at 6 & 9:10; Fri-Sun Notorious at 4:05 and 8:20, Rebecca...
Hitchcock's Rebecca and Wait Until Dark, Sat at 8 & 10 respectively...
...Rebecca, the story of a shy innocent who marries a millionaire only to have everyone compare her damningly with his first, drowned wife, could have turned cruel and vindictive. But Hitchcock works out of a bottomless pit of sinister imagination, and instead of making us feel sorry for the poor put-upon Joan Fontaine, he has us half-believing that she might have this coming to her. Only Hitchcock can make you want to rescue a protagonist and stab her at the same time, and the ambivalence chills. A neat double suspence turn-around caps off the film...