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From the Watergate conspirators to the Mayflower Madam, people have profited from their misdeeds by writing best sellers. But the case of John Fedders represents a bizarre twist in that tradition. Fedders, 46, a former chief enforcement officer at the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned in 1985 after admitting in divorce hearings that he had beaten his wife Charlotte. Now she has written a book about that troubled marriage: Shattered Dreams (Harper & Row; $17.95). Yet for all the humiliation the book is bound to bring John Fedders, he stands to benefit. Because the divorce is not final, the court...
...another twist in the saga of Emerson College's attempt to find a new home, the school this week nixed a plan to move to Beverly and renewed efforts to relocate its campus in Lawrence, its original choice in its two-year search...
...hard to believe, with the background Mikhalkov gives her, that Romano is her first flirt with adultery, or the romantic notion that she learned to read Italian from songs. Still, Sofovna is so convincing, because of the odd twitches with which she endows her character, that the final plot twist is hardly surprising...
...isolate the space of pictures from that of the real world. The results were a set of brilliantly colored oblique reliefs, the Brazilian paintings of 1974-75, followed by the Exotic Birds in 1976-80: images so unexpected that Rubin is right in calling them not just a stylistic twist but the start of a second career...
NORMAN Mailer put a new twist on the ex-con-as-artist theme a while back when he got felon and author Jack Henry Abbott released from prison and back on the streets, where he killed again. Although director John Hancock is a little less daring in his treatment of the theme, his Weeds is one weird melange of a movie...