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...chilled generations of movie audiences with her steely portrayal of Mrs. Danvers in the classic film Rebecca. But all the while, really, Dame Judith Anderson, 76, one of the most durable tragic actresses of the century, has also had a yen to play for laughs. At last her vehicle has come in. On Oct. 23 she will appear in a television production of Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, playing the part of She, a famous, witty, 70-year-old actress on the verge of retirement. Having taken a crack at the title role in Hamlet...
...woman that he pursues hurls her purse at him and flees. Opening the purse, Gimpei finds a minor fortune in yen that the woman has just drawn from the bank; he steals it and flees himself. The woman never reports the loss to the police, for it is money she collected in shame as the mistress of an aged industrialist. Kawabata possessed a delicate sense of the tie between victim and criminal, the kinship of guilt. And of the kinship of sex and death, which the artist, in whatever deformed guises, labors to transcend through art itself...
...fear of being engulfed by the smaller but better-organized Communists, and 2) the ability of the L.D.P. to outspend its opponents on campaign rallies and posters. As the Japanese say, "Go to, yon raku" (Five wins, four loses)-meaning that a candidate who can spend 500 million yen ($1.78 million) will inevitably beat one who can spend only 400 million yen ($1.4 million...
Colson apparently satisfied Nixon's yen for macho operators. He was one of those who talked of "playing hardball" for keeps, and hostile outsiders were not his only targets. He, along with Haldeman, cracked down on more genteel staffers like Communications Director Herb Klein. Though a Nixon friend for more than 20 years, Klein finally resigned. Everything Contrived. His most important role was as a resourceful if unscrupulous political operator. Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired...
...wage increase comes on top of earlier blows to the economy from yen appreciation and soaring oil prices. Already, electric-power rates are scheduled to rise in August by 40%, and shipping costs by one-third. Even before the wage increase, sales of Japanese automobiles in the U.S. were running at only 60% of 1973's level, in part because prices have climbed 5% to 10% above those of comparable American makes. A Toyota official says that the wage boost will force prices even higher this fall. The Industrial Bank of Japan predicts that by next year it will...