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...seem enough like a Greek tragedy, the erstwhile homosexual son Edward (now played by Zelman) who has been dumped by his lover begins to discover that he wants to be a woman. After telling his sister of his new-found desire and enviously touching her breasts in a surprisingly tender and unsexual scene, Edward proclaims, "I want to be a lesbian...
...heroes of America's fight for freedom." After all, Bill Casey was one of them; from the OSS office in London, he had helped direct the deployment of agents behind enemy lines. Still, the real reason for the gathering could scarcely be overlooked. It was, most naturally, the tender remembrance of old adventures, old times, old friends...
...other firms, including General Dynamics and AT&T, about topping Burroughs' offer in a friendly merger deal. Since none of those discussions panned out, Sperry was vulnerable when Blumenthal came back with a $70-a-share bid last month. After Sperry balked again, Burroughs said it would make a tender offer directly to shareholders. Finally Blumenthal made Sperry an offer almost impossible to refuse: $76.50 a share. At a rancorous meeting last week, Sperry's board accepted the offer. President Joseph Kroger led the opposition to the merger and did not appear at the press conference, but he is expected...
...show covers every medium of visual art known in Europe, from armor to paper, from ceramics to tapestry. Durer, of course, is universally known--the Leonardo of the North, spiky, obsessive, all-seeing, whose images fluctuate between reverence for the world's tender details and horror at its resilient otherness. In Durer as in no other artist one sees the moralized universe of the Middle Ages retreating before the scientific one of the Renaissance, not giving ground gracefully but fighting every inch of the way. What the Nuremberg show offers is virtually a self-contained retrospective of his prints--famous...
Despite some tender pillow talk and David's willingness to follow Catherine to the hairdresser, The Garden of Eden is not the work of a secret quiche eater. Catherine's urges do not come naturally to David. His women are part of the external world, like the baking Mediterranean sun and the bracing sea. As always in Hemingway, those externals are observed with a meticulous objectivity that conveys loneliness. There are also many self-conscious passages on the writer's solitary struggle. For example: "It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better...