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...THIS STORY OF MORAL CORRUPTION, Miss Jesse's part is secondary to Quint's, but nonetheless terrifying. Doomed to suffering and shame for having yielded to Quint's powers, she returns to seek revenge. Kierstine seems to have really thought about the character of this former governess. She attracts our sympathy as well as our disgust. She is the inexcusably wronged woman as well as the relentlessly dangerous ghost. Adding to her role, Kierstine uses her arms and head in an almost drugged somnolence. Both' possessed and possessing, she succeeds in mesmerizing not only young Flora, but the audience...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: As the Screw Turns | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

Self disapproves of his life, but as long as the cash rolls in he is powerless to change. Moreover, his swilling and wenching take place in societies where shame is archaic and judgmental a dirty word. Overdue for his flight, Fielding Goodney simply delays the plane with a phony bomb scare: "I always do it when I'm running late. They grill the latecomers but not if you're first-class. It's not economical." A Los Angeles housewife interrupts Self and a prostitute in a parked car with "Hurry it up, pal. You're in my drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One More Fat Englishman Money: a Suicide Note | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Second, you'll soon realize that ice cream is a big dealing on The Cape. Besides the jillions of soft-serv places dispensing chilled liquid linoleum, there are a select few spots that--in price, generosity and yumminess--put Steve's and Herrell's to shame. The best shop on The Cape is on 6A in Dennis village: The Ice Cream Smuggler, where the Oreo is flush with cookies and the Moch.. Chip and Chocolate Chocolate Almond will drive you wild.11Fishing on Colorado's Red Feather Lakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Trips | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...seems to me a terrible shame and a disgrace that at a University such as Harvard where a minority presence has just in the last 20 years begun to develop in number proportionate to Ine greater population, organizations like the Black Students Association should, instead of receiving support and encouragement, be subject encouragement be subject to unprovoked attacks, conduction and criticisms that question their very right to exist. Fortunately not referring to anything done or sanctioned by the University itself, but instead by one of its faculty. In a letter by Professor Martin Kilson on Monday, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future Is Now | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...Kujawa, sitting beneath a heraldic eagle of Poland, sentenced Pietruszka, the defendant stared impassively. "They have brought shame on the state, the citizens and the system," declared Kujawa solemnly. "They have slandered the good name of Poland." In announcing the sentences, Kujawa drew a distinction between Pietruszka and Piotrowski, whom he described as the decision makers, and their subordinates. Kujawa explained that he chose not to order Piotrowski hanged because Polish law states that punishment should seek to educate and frighten the criminal, not simply avenge the crime. Indeed, lawyers representing Popieluszko's family and his driver, Waldemar Chrostowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland the Cost of Shaming the State | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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