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...stars. One film, Octopussy, stars Roger Moore, assaying Bond for the sixth time. The other, Never Say Never Again, returns Sean Connery to the character he originated 20 years ago in Dr. No but has not played since Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Bondolators can rub their eyes in splendid disbelief: soon they will be seeing double 007s...
...home. Disappointed, Updike wandered off and remembered that the Red Sox had a game scheduled at Fenway Park that afternoon. He went and saw Ted Williams hit a home run in his final at-bat, during what turned out to be the last game of his splendid career. Inspired, Updike wrote an instantly recognized classic of sports reporting: "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
...opening narration informs, "a typical American teen-ager." It's just that he also happens to hail from Quadris, a distant planet racked by civil war. He has come to earth to hone his telepathic powers in preparation for the day that he and his guardian (the splendid Louis Gossett Jr.) will return home, unseat the usurpers and restore rightful rule to Quadris...
...presented to distinguished black graduates. Porter Fortune, the chancellor, a Chapel Hill man who since he came here in 1968 has worked toward making all students feel a part of Ole Miss, will give the welcome. Governor William Winter, a graduate of Ole Miss and one of our most splendid hopes, will attend, and so will Robert Harrison, a black from my home town, Yazoo City, who has just become president of Mississippi's board of trustees for institutions of higher learning. The keynote speaker will be Margaret Walker Alexander, the black novelist and teacher. Meredith, now a businessman...
...Jewish conscience is often a splendid moral instrument, one of the most highly developed in the world. The internal anguish in Israel last week, with half the country calling for the resignation of Begin and Sharon, demonstrated that that conscience is obviously in good working order. Israel seemed to plunge abruptly into mortal fallibility, into the ambiguous mess in which most history occurs...