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Bigger in circulation than the New York Times and Washington Post put together, so confident of its following that it dispenses with comic strips, advice columnists, crossword puzzles and a sports page, the Journal is almost certainly the only U.S. newspaper that can make or lose fortunes for the people it writes about. A perverse indication of the paper's power came last month, when the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a formal investigation into leaks to stock traders about what items were to appear in its "Heard on the Street" column. The Journal is far from complete: editors...
...Bufford's work or by the way their teacher reaches across the barriers of age, sex and class to acknowledge the right of great gifts to wrap themselves in socially unappetizing forms. What one can say is that her act of commitment to another committed writer turns rich comic turmoil into touching drama...
...diaries containing the secrets of the past, there is some literary snoop who longs to publish them. Such a struggle is the theme of Henry James' The Aspern Papers, and that marvelous 1888 novella is in turn the inspiration for The Golden Age, A.R. Gurney's comic update, which opened on Broadway two weeks...
...page comic book Spider-Man and Power Pack was produced by the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse with the cooperation of Marvel Comics. Lindsay Wagner is one of the performers in Touch, a 32-minute film to be shown on Minneapolis television May 1. Touch, which has been performed nationally as a play for four years, is the creation of the Minneapolis Illusion Theater, a group that specializes in dramas about child abuse. Among its skits are stories about a baby-sitter who tricks a child into disrobing and a man who fondles his granddaughter...
...sticky situation is bribery. Currency is as counterfeit as the system it supports. A young man (Christian Patey) unknowingly passes a phony 500-franc note, but be cause his stubborn rectitude marks him as an alien in the kingdom of greed, he must suf fer an almost comic series of calamities: fired from his job, then jailed, then abandoned by his wife (Caroline Lang). His child must die. Finally, his spirit purified into psychosis, Yvon must kill...