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...LURKING SENSUALITY that is bound to make itself known in this story of a secluded girls' school down the road from a cadets' training camp is shown subtly first, in a palate of fine detail. There are vague whispers that an old, established widow in town never quite bothered to marry the man whose money she is now living off. And there is a great image of repressed sexual yearning in the school mistress who, ever mindful of war shortages, has the cook bake only one chocolate cake a week, which she single-handedly eats in seclusion...
...catalyst for all that follows is the fatal heart attack of Leonard Strickland, a gentle North Carolina lawyer fond of Montaigne and Cicero. After 40 years of his benign companionship, his widow Nell doubts her ability to go it alone: "He protected me from so much ... from my harshest judgments of myself as well as of others." Strickland's death also catches his two daughters at awkward points in their lives. Cate, headstrong and twice divorced, is approaching her 40th birthday and teaching English at a small college in Iowa; like her previous school in New Hampshire, this...
...Nieman Foundation sponsors fellowships which enable 12 working journalists from the United States and 6 from overseas to study for a year in any part of Harvard University. The fellowships were established in 1938 by a bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of The Milwaukee Journal...
...news was bitterly received by Pasternak's family. Yevgeni Pasternak, a member of the research staff of the Institute of Literature, and his sister-in-law Natalya Pasternak, the widow of the author's other son Leonid, do not live in the house, but they have diligently kept it in repair and conducted tours for visitors. Everything has been preserved just as it was when Pasternak was living. Among the keepsakes: the piano where the noted Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter played all through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka...
That may be more than his film finally deserves. The plot involves the slow-dawning discovery by a corporate executive's widow (Jane Fonda) and a financial wizard (Kris Kristofferson) that her husband was murdered. She is also in danger because her husband discovered how the oil interests were quietly draining resources away from Wall Street. Neither performer is particularly believable. The romance that develops between them is unfeeling, a sop to the audience's conventional expectations. Kristofferson, in particular, lacks the kind of ruthless intelligence one expects of Wall Street wolves; he seems the last person anyone...