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...much for temporal hell remembered. Stein's present haven is an institute established by an eccentric Cleveland widow persuaded that God was conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And we paid the highest price possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares...
...preserve at the center of the earth and prevented an evil maharajah from hypnotizing the entire world. Too bad he could not have done more for the man who actually created him. Author Dent, who died in 1959, never got more than $750 for a Doc Savage novel. His widow, who lives in La Plata, Mo., has no contractual rights to the stories. Of the millions made by the Bantam reprints she will not get a penny...
...ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
...Huggins-widow of a slain California Panther leader - stepped out of the courtroom, tears streamed down her cheeks, Panther sympathizers ran through the three-story building, crying, laughing and yelling...
Died. Helene Weigel, 70, Vienna-born actress-director and flinty widow of Playwright Bertolt Brecht; in East Berlin. Already an accomplished performer when she married Brecht in 1929, Weigel later starred in his drama Mother Courage on the Berlin stage. Anti-Nazi and proCommunist, the couple fled Hitler's Germany in 1933, lived in Denmark and the U.S., then returned to East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there...