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...life with her quirky charm intact. Much of the book shows her as she appeared to her friends: more spontaneous and independent than any woman of her generation had a right to be. For more than 30 years she defended the underdog in leftist journals and in novels like Rope of Gold...
Another daily described the forthcoming event as a "venture to the exterior." The excitement was caused by Prime Minister P.W. Botha's 16-day trip to Western Eu rope, the most ambitious journey under taken by a South African leader in almost 40 years. The purpose of the trip, which is taking Botha to Portugal, Switzerland, Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria and perhaps Italy: to move South Africa a bit further from the limbo to which its apartheid policies have condemned it for the past generation...
...shoe string budgets and breakneck schedules, cramming a semester's work into four or five weeks. The aptly named Spartan Health Sciences University on St. Lucia has only two full-time professors. The physiology and biochemistry departments occupy one room, separated from the hallway by a beaded rope curtain. The microbiology laboratory consists of a few rough wooden tables. Students are advised to bring their own microscopes...
...Welty, and they got on the subject of driving. Welty, who was getting up in age, allowed that she continued to drive but that she found propelling herself off the approach ramp onto superhighways particularly difficult, like insinuating yourself into a game of hot pepper, the furiously fast jump-rope play that still goes on in schoolyards everywhere. The sharpness of the image suggested a writer's mind at work, which in fact was the case...
...five re-released films, screams are at a minimum. Most of the mayhem-the stabbing in The Man Who Knew Too Much, the strangling in Vertigo, the dismembering in Rear Window, the death in The Trouble with Harry-takes place offscreen. Only the gruesome garroting in Rope is shown to the viewer, and that at the film's beginning. But if the viewer's desire for crime is not satisfied, the character's compulsion for punishment is. In Rope, two bright young men kill a classmate, hide his body in a living-room chest, then throw...