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...that make Platonov so appealing also render him irresponsible: unlike the safe and predictable dullards around him, he has simply never grown up. In the funniest yet most poignant scene, he feverishly debates whether to stay faithful to his wife (Kate Burton) or sneak off to join a handsome widow who has urged a liaison (Kathryn Walker), when who should appear on his doorstep but an old flame (Kim Cattrall), now his best friend's new bride, to whom he impulsively proposed elopement in a stupor after lunch. Doors slam; people hop out from bushes and then back behind them...
...matters in Washington, Voyager sailed over the Pacific, over Africa and into the South Atlantic, more than halfway home, offering the world a needed distraction. Voyager's journey called to mind Charles Lindbergh's daring solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, and last week the Lone Eagle's widow was tracking the plane's progress. "I am holding my breath for them," said Anne Morrow Lindbergh of the crew. "What they are doing takes great courage and faith...
...FEBRUARY 26, 1986, Corazon C. Aquino was sworn in as President of the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos fled the country for exile abroad. It was the final act of a morality play, in which the courageous widow of a martyred Filipino leader, starting without political experience or power, had "spoken truth to power" and mobilized the Philippine people to overthrow an entrenched, autocratic head of state...
What kinds of prepublication agreements ... might we consider improper for a scholar? Suppose that [a] widow would only offer materials to the biographer of her husband on condition that she review the manuscript in advance to insure that her husband was "treated with proper respect?" Or suppose that the widow offered her papers only with the promise that she have power to censor the book to insure the accuracy not merely of her own statements but of everything written about her husband. In both cases, the standards are so broad and vague as to carry an unacceptable risk of interfering...
...last in a 1984 ranking of American cities according to quality of life. To be sure, the quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody Marys and being chauffeured around in a Chevrolet station wagon while the Rolls is being repaired...