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...SABINA CATHERINE FORBES Big potential. In TV spots for hubby, she projects Bushlike quality--Barbara, not George...
Mildred Johnson, a retired bookkeeper and a parishioner at St. Sabina's Catholic Church on the South Side, is proud that her husband Odessa is going to the march. She has seen her 31-year-old son search unsuccessfully for work. She has watched the new Cook County jail go up: "a masterpiece; there's not a school in the county that can compare." Black people, she says, "are always in a grieving state; we've been tranquilized by injustice." She is hoping that Farrakhan's march will wake them up. She doesn't care that...
...Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung in turn surmised that Freud had become involved with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. Both antagonists in this standoff held bombshells that could blow each other's reputation from Vienna to Zurich and back; both backed off, divided up the spoils...
...Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984). The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia forces the surgeon Tomas, his wife Tereza and his mistress Sabina into involuntary exile. Kundera, who was himself driven from Prague by that upheaval, examines his characters' reactions to the new winds of freedom. Hailed as an apotheosis of East European dissent when it first appeared, the novel now begins to look prophetic...
...repeated to every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets you want to discover?" The questioner is Sabina (Lena Olin), a painter and Tomas' frequent mistress whose principal props are her mirror and her quaint black bowler. The mirror is Sabina's canvas, her lover, her critic; the hat is an emblem of her willingness to walk out on a lover or a country when it gets...