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...MOTHER'S HOUSE. This splendid, moody film takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture in a London suburb, where seven orphaned children cover up the death of their mother and try to maintain their old life with a mixture of love of one another and fear of the outside world...
Despite its success, Expo may still wind up with a $250 million deficit. But as far as Montreal and Canada are concerned, it was worth it. For the fair leaves behind a splendid legacy of international good will and national pride-not to mention an embarrassment of riches. Thirty-six nations have already agreed to hand over their pavilions to Montreal, and Mayor Jean Drapeau, the originator of Expo, is casting about for ways to make the island sites into a permanent summertime exhibit and tourist attraction. Among his envisioned lures: Buckminster Fuller's U.S. geodesic dome, converted into...
...Buckley can be effectively pithy. When the British Labor government decided to equip police with breathometers to check drivers for drunkenness, he commented: "People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government." Or he can set sail on splendid seas of invective. "The Bishop of Woolwich, who is England's Bishop Pike only more so, announced recently from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral that he had recently traveled to America and there found that 'every Christian I met' was opposed to the war in Viet...
...mysteries rooted in perverse family situations could be. The first is an intensive, static exploration of personal and criminal relationships in a tiny California college, while the second is a novel in motion, sprawling over the whole Southwest and Mexico. But each of these divergent books works a similar splendid change on one of the shopworn tricks of the mystery trade, the revelation of guilt which confutes the reader's expectations. MacDonald transforms a mechanical gimmick into a genuinely horrifying reversal, in each case significant, completely unexpected, and carefully prepared. A reader finds such glimpses of horror throughout the Archer...
...MOTHER'S HOUSE. This splendid, moody film takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture in a London suburb, where seven orphaned children hide the death of their mother and try to maintain their old life with a mixture of love of one another and fear of the outside world...