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...Hate and Redemption in A Winter's Tale. "Edna Shaft (Jessica Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover, Reg, whom Butley disdains. This news stirs not only jealousy but whole psychic subcurrents of his own unresolved homosexuality. Butley counterattacks this battalion of woes with great sardonic war whoops, trying to beat back misery with salvos of bitter jokes...
Allen's observation is peculiarly ironic. In the recent spate of kidnapings -Patricia Hearst, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy, Mrs. Eunice Kronholm of Minneapolis, eight-year-old John Calzadilla of Long Island-there has been one major exception to the generally sensible coverage of these stories: the Minneapolis television and press, including Allen's Tribune. Though the Trib was not alone in pursuing the Kronholm kidnap story with excessive zeal, its reportorial ingenuity and aggressiveness at times crowded its competitors -and its usual sense of discretion...
...companies operating in Argentina and other Latin American countries. The vulnerability of corporations to this kind of attack by revolutionaries or run-of-the-alley hoodlums even in the U.S. has been starkly dramatized recently by the abductions of Publishing Heiress Patricia Hearst in California and Newspaper Editor John ("Reg") Murphy in Atlanta. As a result, more and more companies are being spurred into buying a form of insurance policy that was all but unheard of a few years ago, and even today is hardly ever discussed openly: ransom insurance for executives...
...morning after his kidnapers had released him, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy was haggard and tired. Because his wrists had been bound during much of his 49-hour ordeal, one hand was still numb. But he was a newsman with a story. So he sat down and wrote a 4,000-word account of what it had been like in captivity. The Associated Press immediately moved the story on its national wire in time to make Sunday editions round the country...
Furthermore, kidnapers purporting to aid and represent any large group of Americans must eventually realize that few of their intended beneficiaries appreciate largesse wrested with the threat of blood. As Reg Murphy put it after his release: "Before I was so rudely interrupted, I used to say that this ought to be a civilized country. The people who think like my kidnapers are going to have to use some other tactics - because this won't win them any friends...