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Gray delved into the actual process of writing in a way that few writers do. His assertion that William Faulkner's "prose rhythms" crop up in Morrison's writing, however, left me wondering. Morrison won the Nobel. Do we still have to think she needs a role model? JACINDA TOWNSEND New York City...
DIED. ROBERT TOWNSEND, 77, business guru whose best-selling Up the Organization detailed how he jump-started Avis' flagging car rentals; in the West Indies. So what was his secret? One, revealed in his 97-chapter treatise, was to serve big lunches before board meetings...
...eldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 46, displayed so much moral earnestness that, in her youth, her brothers dubbed her "the Nun." Turning to politics, she was at first squeamish about trumpeting her maiden name and lost a 1986 congressional race in Maryland. But in 1994 she let it work its magic and became Lieutenant Governor. Holding such un-Kennedy-like stands as support for the death penalty, she is seen as a future candidate for Governor...
...disparaged by a father who asserts that "You are good for nothing unless you are clever." Catherine has so internalized his belief in her inadequacies that she insists to her aunt she never thinks of love or marriage. You know what that means. Into the Sloper brownstone swoops Morris Townsend (Diego Arciniegas), a distant cousin-of-a-cousin just returned from some months in Europe. Translation: he is dashing, lively, vaguely exotic, and unpreoccupied with the social stringencies of Old New York...
Take, for example, Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as Catherine Sloper, the shy and awkward young woman whose wealth Townsend is stalking. Does she really have to keep dropping objects and walking into walls to prove her social and physical ineptitude? And what about Albert Finney as her father, at once contemptuous and overprotective of her? He's a constantly rumbling volcano ever on the verge of eruption. One keeps recalling, much to Finney's disadvantage, the icier malevolence of Ralph Richardson in the earlier movie. On the other hand, Maggie Smith's Aunt Penny, more in love with Morris...