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But Monsoon Wedding has something else on its mind. More jostling and bumptious in spirit than Kissing Jessica Stein, it shares a similar idea, which is that the way for romance to prosper in the modern world is to leave it some space to mess around with conventional expectations. These...
When the royal hunt of Mme. de Maintenon was turned into a piece of popular fiction in The King's Way (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 497 pages; $15.95), it reigned for 80 weeks on France's bestseller list. Françoise Chandernagor, 38, a French judge, has been more...
Chancellor disclosed to committee members one unsettling fact, though: let ters sent to NBC on the Government-press conflict had been running 10 to 1 in favor of the Administration. Reaction at other networks and newspapers was much the same. "The media need to listen to the public on some...
People turn where they stand into living X rays just before they disintegrate entirely. Fire storms swallow up towns. The images of destruction, mild for a theatrical movie and practically gentle by any factual measure, are still startling by American television standards, and they pack force. Once this montage of...
John Sayles is ambling toward Holly wood legitimacy. Author of award-winning short stories, screenwriter of such intelligent exploitation movies as The Lady in Red and Alligator, gifted writer-director of the no-budget Return of the Secaucus 7 and the low-budget Lianna, Sayles has traded up. His new...