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...Blues sends Eugene to Mississippi for basic training in 1943. He faces authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation. He methodically loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature. In perhaps his least anticipated experience, he meets an age mate smarter than he is, not only in literary learning but in his grasp of human nature...
Some people graduate from Hollywood to superpower negotiations. Samantha Smith, 12, is doing it the other way around. Ever since Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov replied to her letter about world peace with an invitation to Moscow in 1983, the schoolgirl from Manchester, Me., has basked in international celebrity, chatting on TV talk shows and lecture podiums from New York to Tokyo, and writing a book about her peace initiative (Journey to the Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street...
...Soviet press published the text of Chernenko's reply to a letter from a Canadian student, Laurie Piraux, 18, of Calgary, Alta., who had asked Chernenko what could be done to secure world peace. His letter was ominously reminiscent of the one Andropov sent two years ago to Maine Schoolgirl Samantha Smith, inviting her to visit the Soviet Union. By the time Samantha arrived with her parents in July 1983, Andropov was apparently too ill to receive her. He made one more public appearance, in August 1983, before , disappearing from public view. His death was announced...
...request of Svetlana's former husband, American Architect William Wesley Peters, the U.S. embassy in Moscow has pressed the Soviets for assurances that the couple's daughter Olga willingly went to Moscow with her mother. Svetlana dismissed the inquiry, noting that "as long as she is a schoolgirl, she will act according to my wishes." Olga speaks no Russian, and reportedly her mother wants to enroll her in a special English-language school...
Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star...