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...because this performance is such a revelation. The depth Redgrave gives her character makes every move convincing, as when Jean risks making a similar "mistake" by letting another stranger into her life, this time a girl named Karen with whom Morgan had become obsessed. Suzanna Hamilton plays this variably vacant, furious, and wise creature with uncanny control. The police officer (Stuart Wilson) gets the best lines in Wetherby as consolation for losing his girlfriend to her ex-husband ("He's an awful man...the kind that keeps sheep.") "Peripheral" characters get their say in the world; all the subplots...
...week's end the fire still smoldered upon what Passaic Mayor Joseph Lipari mournfully spoke of as "40 acres of vacant land." Gone were 23 homes, along with 17 buildings that had housed about 60 manufacturers (of plastics, handkerchiefs, chemicals, printed materials) and provided about 2,700 jobs. Damages: approximately $400 million. At least 88 families were left homeless. In one destroyed warehouse were the elaborate costumes for 75 productions of the New York City Opera. Lost also was some of the momentum that Passaic had made in a heroic effort to come back from the bankruptcy it experienced...
...Attorney General's most pressing long-term concern is the federal judiciary. President Reagan has 95 new or vacant judgeships to fill, and nominations are expected to flood Capitol Hill this autumn. Meese is bound to have a say in appointing judges who subscribe to the Administration's social philosophy. If he succeeds in packing the benches with conservative ideologues, Ed Meese may see the Reagan Revolution endure in America's courts through the end of this century...
...controversial decision last night at City Hall, a Cambridge shelter for the homeless was denied permission to locate a new facility in a vacant Central Square church...
...city's highest elected office became vacant when the late mayor, Leonard J. Russell, died on June 13. Before a new mayor could be chosen, Russell's city council seat had to be filled by recounting his ballots from the 1983 municipal election...