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...cast does an excellent job of conveying Hitchcock's message that in the isolating circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party...
James' enormous output owed something to both his energy and his generous life span; he reviewed regularly for 51 years, and was able to comment on a new novel by Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend) in 1865 and a posthumous collection of letters by Rupert Brooke in 1916. Also, his career happened to coincide with an expanding market for his skills. Literacy on both sides of the Atlantic was spreading, and new publications in the U.S. and England rushed into life to meet the demand for reading matter. James profited from this development, but he also, with characteristic hedging, deplored...
...campaign was dogged by innuendoes linking her family to organized crime, and she did not hesitate to slug it out. When the tabloid New York Post reported that her parents had once been arrested on gambling charges, the furious Ferraro said Post Publisher Rupert Murdoch "doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoes." Ferraro's own Roman Catholic Church attacked her pro-choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned...
...Harvard men's hockey team decided to form a tree of their own last night in Dartmouth's Rupert Thompson Arena. The Crimson hung to little red lights all over Big Green netminder felt Bower...
...travel publications, most of them leaders in their markets. Among those interested were the New York Times Co., Time Inc., Hearst, CBS and ABC. The massive sell-off was accomplished in just 24 hours last week, when CBS purchased the consumer group for $362.5 million, and Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch bought the trade publications for $350 million. Although the cash may have sounded middling by the standards of current Wall Street corporate transactions, the sales ranked as the biggest and second-biggest deals in magazine history. Said Smith, Barney Analyst Edward Atorino: "Ziff got much more for his magazines...