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A quiet young man named John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is a surprise guest at a dinner party whose host is Wetherby's favorite schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave). He strikes a spark somewhere inside Jean's loneliness. The next day he stops by, chats a bit, then puts a gun...
That radio continues to flourish more than three decades after it was supposedly doomed by television will come as a surprise only to those who confidently predict the demise of every old technology the minute a new one comes along. Although radio was forced into the background by TV during...
Suppose you wanted to stage a Broadway flop and were casting around for surefire bad ideas. What would you think of? Well, how about this: 15 mostly middle-aged and sometimes portly Argentines dancing the night away in that hoary old favorite, the tango. Add to that four singers declaring...
The answers were far from clear. In the confusion that followed the TV announcement, a U.S. official in Washington remarked that Marcos' decision had "taken everybody by surprise: us, the [Philippine] opposition, even his own inner circle."
If any U.S. signal may have helped catalyze Marcos' latest surprise venture, it was a four-day visit to Manila last month by Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Laxalt held two meetings with the Philippine leader. At one of them, the U.S. legislator passed along a three-page letter...