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SOMETHING IS WRONG in Lake Forest, Ill. A kid dies in a boating accident. His brother, Conrad, who was there when it happened, tries to kill himself. Later, he has nightmares, so he goes to see a psychiatrist. His father doesn't have nightmares, but he goes to see the psychiatrist too. Conrad's old girlfriend kills herself. Conrad gets better; his mother leaves his father. Pretty soon, we get the point--everyone here is getting divorced and seeing a psychiatrist and killing himself...
...years, and his name appeared directly under that of the editor in chief. As chief executive officer, a post he assumed in 1969, he was charged not only with supervising the company's seven magazines but also with running Time Inc.'s extensive interests in book publishing, forest products, TV, film and other enterprises. During his tenure as C.E.O., company revenues rose from $618.5 million in 1969 to $2.5 billion last year. Those figures reflect intrepid moves on Heiskell's part in acquisitions outside publishing as well as the expansion of the magazine division (MONEY...
...during his six years in Congress. Former President Gerald Ford, his Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and conservative retired Army Generals John Singlaub and Daniel Graham are making pilgrimages into the district on Fitzgerald's behalf. Polls show that Weaver still leads, but Fitzgerald has come out of the forest swinging and spending in a way that will ensure that the final outcome should be close...
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Spying in women's garb at the forest rites of the maenads, Pentheus is beheaded by his own mother Agave (Irene Papas), who, crazed by Dionysus, takes her son for a lion...
Until now, the best-known of these consciences ripened in central and northern Europe, thanks largely to the pioneering work of the Grimms (in Germany) and Alexander Afanasyev (in Russia). Calvino's collection throws open a sunny window to the south. A tale told in the Black Forest differed, apparently, from the one that was related on the shores of the Mediterranean. The three little pigs did not make it to Italy; they became three grownup girls named Catherine, Julia and Marietta. Italian bards had little interest in the violence and gore that sometimes make for such grimm reading...