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There is none of Shirley Jackson's psychological subtlety to be found here, only a couple of rude - and occasionally effective - shocks, plus a good, serious performance by Pamela Franklin...
...needs of the multinationals. As it does to millions of ordinary Italians and Frenchmen, the Common Market so far means little more to millions of ordinary Britons than higher food prices and the mammoth trucks known as "Continental juggernauts" that shatter the peace of quiet country towns-a rude sample, they worry, of other horrors to come...
...Hollywood, picking Ali as the 158th celebrity to get the concrete treatment outside its doorway (the last person so honored was Gene Kelly in 1969). To her dismay, Ali found the site crowded not only with fans but with demonstrators, who greeted the heroine of Love Story with rude placards. Urged one: LET US GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. ALI MACGRAW, WHO ARE YOU!! Ali knelt anyway, pressed her extremities into the mush, also inscribed, "Peace & Love, Ali MacGraw," and then departed, her place in movie history secure...
...life, he concluded that there was no real reason ever to leave one's room. Whatever there was to know could be read. Just as Calvin and Sebastian Castellio of Basen disputed the nature of redemption, just as Bruno and the Hermeticists quarreled over Phyrronism, so the theologians, the rude heretics during an earlier time conducted their speculations in sombre monasteries, in libraries where each volume had been copied out in a laborious script...