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UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (PBS). Hitherto unseen footage of the great filmmaker at work. Assembled with uncommon care and intelligence, this entry in the American Masters series illuminated a genius...
...didn't kill anyone. But what seems obscured by the financial community, and perhaps even the press, is that he is a common--or rather, uncommon--criminal who is barely even getting slapped on the wrist...
Totally self-effacing in the interests of her material, Elizabeth Schneider has written what may be the timeliest and most truly helpful book of the year. Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables (Harper & Row; $25) covers in detail all the exotic fruits and vegetables now appearing in produce departments across the country. In words and pictures she tells readers how to identify, buy, store, clean and prepare jicama, atemoya, daikon, nopales and calabaza, among dozens of others. Although some of the fruits and vegetables in this compendium are hardly uncommon to old-world chefs (celeriac, parsley root, arugula, broccoli rab and gooseberries...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, but a feature on Moscow television last week was nonetheless a stopper. The news program International Panorama showed a favorable five-minute report on McDonald's. Filmed at one of its restaurants in New York City, the segment highlighted the efficiency of the fast-food operation, an uncommon tribute in a land devoted to disdaining capitalism. The salute encouraged McDonald's to hope that its ten-year effort to open restaurants in the Soviet Union will at last succeed...
...turns up in a garden. The grave robber is discovered to be the daughter of the woman with the missing husband. At her subsequent trial, the daughter argues that the actions of the past must not be buried, and is threatened with incarceration in a mental hospital -- a not uncommon fate of Soviet dissidents. The film ends with the woman's awakening to find it was all a dream. Repentance is exceptional because it is the first Soviet film to deal with Beria and the horrors associated with the Stalin...