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Preliminary Splutter. His best novels -Kipps, Tono-Bungay, Mr. Britling Sees It Through-have their share of belowstairs social comedy and wistful aspirations. But as an artist as well as a prophet, Dickson judges Wells "all brains and very little heart." In Boon, his wicked attack on Henry James, he...
In the course of this alternately acute and naive odyssey, Wyatt and Billy carom from ranch to hippie commune to jail to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. En route, they pick up a Civil Liberties lawyer named George Hanson. As it emerges in the film, the lawyer's part...
Divorced. Rod Steiger, 44, burly, Academy Award-winning master of a hundred faces (The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, No Way to Treat a Lady); by Claire Bloom, 37, the wistful ballerina in Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight, and veteran Shakespearean actress; on grounds of incompatibility...
It was an eloquent, 24-minute litany of Ulster's tangled ills and animosities, and when she sat down, the M.P.s roared their approval, waving their order papers like banners, reaching out to pump her hand wildly or scribbling notes to be passed to her. In a debating chamber...
THE $1500 that would have gone to the boat ride would be spent instead on free Coca-Cola and Ginger Ale, free hors d'ourvres like potato chips and crackers, and a real live soul band--the name of which has become another of those wistful memories that are Harvard...