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...Piao is the Guards' command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai. He recently ordered cadre leaders to stop beating up Chinese and removing art from public buildings. He also told them to stop pasting up the big-character wall poster that denounced the widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the founder of the first Chinese Republic...
...VIRGINIAN (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Charles Bickford, as John Grainger, buys Shiloh ranch and joins the series in the season's opener, with Jo Van Fleet as a bitter widow who tries to drive Grainger off his new property...
Most Memorable. Other documents regarding Vermeer's life are scarce, testifying mainly to his baptism in 1632, his financial straits, and the fact that when he died in 1675, at 43, he left his widow and eleven children a bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such...
...wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
...heroine's feet do not. A middle-aged war widow who has taken up nursing, she is sick to death of all the killing, and decides to support the powers that be for the sake of peace and quiet. She joins the SS nursing corps, but discovers to her horror that SS nurses are better trained to kill than to cure. As her personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news...