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...restless discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting but also in the low numbers of votes cast. "There is a mood of apprehension and anxiety, a fear of the unknown," says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti. Boston Globe Columnist Jeremiah V. Murphy summed it up neatly when he wrote, "We should feel better than we actually do. But nobody knows...
...lessons, begun by Marjabelle Young Stewart, a writer on etiquette, has tripled in the past three years. Publishers are rushing books into print to rehabilitate Americans' behavior and bring order to their vast social confusion. Columnist Ann Landers, with her wonderfully brisk "listen-cookie" style, has just come forth with a 1,212-page The Ann Landers Encyclopedia A to Z (abdominal muscles to zoonoses), which gets down to all sorts of nitty-gritty not only about social rituals ("Prince Philip, may I present my laundress Ruth Smith") but also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry...
...beyond the call of duty. Just why any young writer should be so cynical in constructing a love story the first time out is hard to fathom. Barra Grant has the dancer (played by Anne Ditchburn of the National Ballet of Canada) move in down the hall from the columnist (Paul Sorvino). There are a number of chance encounters in which she gradually warms to his streetwise but not hardened sensibility, just as he comes to appreciate her strangely withdrawn nature...
...master, trying to hide, as well, her growing feelings for the writer. He, too, is preoccupied. He almost misses her brief victory over pain and the tough New York audience because he is trying, unsuccessfully, to save a young boy from his evil, heroin-pushing older brother. Finally, the columnist makes it to the theater, just in time to carry Ditchburn onstage for her curtain calls after her legs have given out. It is surely one of the most embarrassingly heartwarming climaxes in movie history, but somehow appropriate to a movie that would have been too sentimental and preposterous even...
...afternoon, Swiss time. Conservative Columnist William Buckley knows just what he will be doing: starting his third novel. The author of Saving the Queen and Stained Glass is going to Rougemont, Switzerland, and has set aside five weeks to churn out another thriller. Après-ski and pre-harpsichord practice, Buckley, 52, plans to produce 1,500 words a day. Why the regimen? "The 20th century notion that you should stare at the ceiling until the afflatus [inspiration] hits you is self-indulgent," harrumphs Buckley, who does admit to slight concern about having no plot...