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...DIED. Vera-Ellen Rohe, 60, Cincinnati-born actress who, under the stage name Vera-Ellen, brought her well-scrubbed good looks and lissome dancing to a string of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood musicals, appearing opposite such stars as Gene Kelly (On the Town), Fred Astaire (Three Little Words) and Bing Crosby (White Christmas); of cancer, in Los Angeles...
...career woman in charge of a huge plant, a mother and an occasional lover of some very occasional men. She is doing all this while still dealing with the utter cynicism of Moscow which talks about Leninism and wants, so badly, the same nice life as anyone else. Vera Alentova plays Katerina with a feel for all this schizophrenia. A strange beauty (but only if you look closely)--she ages with extraordinary carefulness. The last thing overboard is the bouncy, optimism that brought her to Moscow as a girl,--but her wariness has more and more taken it over...
After days of crosscutting between sentiment and starkness, Frank Reynolds of ABC exactly caught television's about-to-change tone on the wedding eve by proclaiming, "It is now fairy-tale time," which would be a "respite from reality." And though the recorded voice of Vera Lynn was summoned up, singing There'll Always Be an England ("If England means as much to you/ As England means to me"), and though NBC'S John Hart took a smarmy look at Lady Di's old school to see how proper English girls got their special "edge...
...booming money-market funds passed yet another milestone: their first reported theft. The FBI alleged that a Brazilian couple, an accounting clerk and her boyfriend, embezzled $1.55 million from the $788 million First Variable Rate Fund for Government Income in Washington by using an almost routine bank fraud scheme. Vera Lucia Campos, 27, and Andre L. Prestes, 26, who were illegal aliens according to the Government, appeared to have planned the ploy carefully...
...mode of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears-this year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film-is a kind of patient realism. The style is not flashy, but it is satisfying because it makes clear just what the protagonist, Katerina (Vera Alentova), has suffered and sacrificed in order to earn her nice car and nice apartment and the right to those middle-aged tears that Moscow so distrusts...