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...American classics, and all have been singled out by public schools or libraries-but not for praise. In fact, these distinguished titles all appear on some current list or other of banned books: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage...
...real Henry Fonda, who is suffering from a severe heart ailment, On Golden Pond was the next best thing to a cure. Despite having given some of Holly wood's finest performances of the past 50 years - in such films as The Grapes of Wrath, Twelve Angry Men, and Mister Roberts- Fonda had never won an Oscar...
...gravitational centerpieces of its new full-length U.S. dramas, the festival offers adaptations of The Grapes of Wrath and The Informer. This rather dubiously stretches the word new and, in the present instance, has the disconcertingly anti-theatrical effect of making a playgoer wish that he or she were reading the novels or seeing the films. And two sessions totaling 18 monologues are at least one too many...
Inside the Hilton's Grand Ballroom, however, a black-tie crowd of 1,000 heard from Reagan only the soft answers that proverbially turneth away wrath. He paid tribute to a list of Democratic and liberal heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. He presented himself as the protector of F.D.R.'s welfare state. Said Reagan: "I'm accused by some of trying to destroy Government's commitment to compassion and the needy. Does this bother me? Yes. I'm doing everything I can . . . to slow the destructive growth in taxes and spending...
...thoroughly captured and made over this little pocket of the present that when he decided not to show his new fall women's line during the semiannual glitz and giddiness known loosely as the Milan collections, he incurred the wrath of the press but walked off with the honors anyway. "Armani is the king of the Italian Alps," says Geraldine Stutz, president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest...