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...with a more interesting astigmatism? New women novelists have begun writing about women as creatures who can make noises in the forest, even if no man is there to hear, and whose sexuality, in particular, functions without any by-your-leave from old social presumptions. Now a determined trend spotter can point to a handful of new films whose makers think that women can bear the dramatic weight of a production alone, or virtually...
...week, Israel's Premier Menachem Begin caused a stir with a public admission: Israeli artillery regularly fires into south Lebanon to shoo away Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanese Christian enclaves in the border area. In fact, during a recent seven-day period, Israeli batteries-sometimes directed by observers in spotter planes-fired 16 times at Palestinian forces near the seven Christian villages in the border area; during the same week, the Israelis manned two observation posts in Lebanese territory and sent in seven patrols-one of which got into a firefight with Palestinian commandos...
Died. Goddard Lieberson, 66, a musician who became the immensely successful president of Columbia Records; of cancer; in Manhattan. English-born, Lieberson started out to be a Composer, but instead went to work for Columbia in 1939, quickly gaining a reputation as a trend spotter and a man who could work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bart...
...challenge the Yankees mounted was to the not too terrible ire of Commissioner Kuhn. Yankees' Manager Billy Martin had requested permission to place a spotter with a walkie-talkie in the stands to help position his fielders. The scheme was approved for one man, but the Reds detected three operatives wired for sound and complained. Kuhn put Radio Free Yankees off the air for the first game, but, in a compromise generous enough to be wished in the Middle East, authorized two scouts for remaining games...
Deadly Risk. "It's a standoff," said one police officer as the long siege of the kidnap hideout began. While a spotter plane kept the house under constant surveillance, armored cars were stationed outside the front door, and more than 200 soldiers and police surrounded the floodlit house. Loudspeaker appeals for the kidnapers' surrender were met with a broadside of obscene oaths from Gallagher. A psychologist was rushed to the scene to listen to conversations in the besieged bedroom that were monitored by sophisticated electronic equipment borrowed from Scotland Yard. Herrema was heard to call hoarsely for food...