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...Mole in a Maze of Mirrors Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, PBS (Mondays, beginning Sept. 29, 8 p.m. E.D.T.). Except for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John Le Carré's convoluted plots have resisted translation into two-dimensional film and television. Now, in what should be the TV event of the season, the BBC proves that Britannia still rules the air waves. PBS's six-part showing of the BBC-co-produced Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is probably the most intellectually demanding-and rewarding-TV series ever seen...
Mole is a code word for the double agent who has burrowed his way into the heart of the British secret service. As Tinker, Tailor opens, the head of intelligence, known only as Control (Alexander Knox), determines that one of his subordinates has an open line to Moscow. But which one? Enter the redoubtable George Smiley, brought out of retirement. The counterspy is an unlikely hero. He is middle-aged and stout, and his adulterous wife has bedded down with just about every man he knows, including Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson), one of the four candidates for Mole...
DIED. Henry Miller, 88, earthy novelist and evangelist of unfettered sex, once hailed by Norman Mailer as "the last great American pioneer," in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After two decades as a roustabout in jobs ranging from a tailor shop to a New York speakeasy, Miller joined the expatriate migration to Paris, where he wrote his autobiographical sagas, Tropic of Cancer, (1934), and Tropic of Capricorn, (1939). Their bawdiness prevented their publication in the U.S. until the liberated 1960s, but Miller, who married five times and spent his later years ruminating on California's Big Sur, lived...
Muskie is a mixture of Polish combativeness and Yankee taciturnity. The second of six children of an immigrant Polish tailor who settled in Maine, he became a fervent debater in high school in the mill town of Rumford. He went on to graduate from Maine's Bates College and Cornell University Law School. Elected to the Maine house of representatives in 1946, he ran for Governor in 1954 and scored a startling upset in a traditionally Republican state. He got along so well with his Republican-controlled legislature that he was even invited to join the G.O.P., an honor...
...specialized group of lymphocytes, known as natural killer cells. All types of interferon boost the defense system, but the IF produced by T cells may do it best, perhaps because, as Pathologist Robert Friedman of the National Institutes of Health says, it is more of an "insider," a substance tailor-made by the immune system cells themselves. According to Samuel Baron, the Texas virologist, immune IF is 20 times more potent an antitumor agent than the interferon produced by fibroblast or leukocyte cells...