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...sense as well. We stand between the two angry lines of what has become a war of the generations. The middle in any war is seldom safe ground, but when we look at today's angry, frustrated youth and their equally angry, frustrated parents, the middle-what Journalist Renata Adler, 31, calls the "radical middle"-is where we would elect...
...Renata Adler, Journalist
After her tax accountant, one Norman Egenberg, was indicted on charges of bribing IRS agents, the U.S. income tax records of Italian Diva Renata Tebaldi became public property. A deduction labeled "claque" in the 1964 and 1965 returns cast doubts on the spontaneity of some of the opera star's standing ovations. In fact, at $2,400 and $2,500 per annum, it seemed as if she had some pretty high-priced talent in her rooting section. On the witness stand at Egenberg's trial, the imperious Tebaldi denied all: "I never paid a claque in my life...
Shirley, quite the other way, has a compulsion to give everything, including herself, away. When one of the bores and deadbeats she has befriended lets her down, she picks up another. When her nasty little painter friend Renata chooses to try a fake suicide the day after a real abortion, Shirley ditches her husband on a sacred Saturday evening he had reserved for taking her out to dinner and spends the night at Renata's flat. Philippe, ever logical, goes home to mother and has a liver attack. Shirley, forlorn and illogical, goes to a restaurant and picks...
...York Times film critic-a period she justifiably describes as "a year in the dark"-she resigned "to do occasional articles." It is to be hoped that the occasions will occur frequently. There is a vast no man's land between Walter Cronkite and Norman Mailer. Renata Adler is just the right woman to fill...