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ONCE UPON a time, there was a cinematic fairy tale. A fairy tale of true love conquering all. A tale in which the good survive and the bad are conquered and in which characters ride off into the sunset. Such is the saga of The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's entry into the fantasy genre. It is less than fantastic...
...perfect ending for Woodward's dramatic spy saga. Too perfect, in the view of some. Casey's widow Sophia flatly denied that Woodward had seen her late husband in the hospital. Ronald Reagan branded Woodward's account an "awful lot of fiction." Others questioned whether, even if true, Casey's dying nod and the tantalizingly ambiguous "I believed" were enough to close the books on the CIA director's involvement in the Iran-contra affair. Though Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified in July that Casey had embraced the diversion as the "ultimate covert operation" and many suspect...
...least the two beat out the wacky new comic strip, which tells the ongoing and offbeat saga of three rabbits, one of whom is missing an ear, and perennials Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield in last week's first annual Crimson comic strip poll...
...submission to self-respect of a woman who discovers after her husband's death how little she has known of his real life. Ruth Rendell, roughly half of whose novels feature Detectives Wexford and Burden, won an Edgar this spring under the pseudonym Barbara Vine for the one- off saga of family madness A Dark-Adapted Eye. She may be a contender for another under her own name for Heartstones (Harper & Row; 80 pages; $10.95), a medieval enameled miniature of a novella. Set in the environs of a cathedral, it etches the opposite but equally crazy ways in which...
There are trends, all too easily discernible, in dinner conversations. The saga of domestic help is a persistent one -- pretty worked over by now. Real estate is an ongoing turnoff, but the new buzz is even more boring and more inescapable. It is traffic...