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...Sanditon is the real stuff, the characters and plot set forth in it were enough tc give the rest of the story a veritable Austen contour. Charlotte Heywood is a sensible and clearsighted it quiet country girl staying with Mr. and Mrs. Parker at Sanditon, a new seaside resort on the Sussex coast that Mr. Parker is most anxious to promote. There she falls in love, gets involved in an unforeseen elopement (not her own) and escapes a farcical abduction...
TIME correspondents have written that "Sadat has proved quite capable of bold leadership and blunt talk among Arab leaders." True. But in the last resort, leadership consists of leaders talking bluntly and boldly-to themselves and to each other. This is the Israeli hope from Anwar Sadat...
...tired phenomena as the uneasy marriage, the adulterous wife, the snaky seducer. In the movie, most of this lallygagging is eliminated. Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) must still fight the town's mayor, who is fearful that closing the beaches after the first shark attacks will ruin his resort's economy. He still joins forces with Quint, the professional shark killer (Robert Shaw, employing an ornate accent of indeterminate origin), and a youthful ichthyologist named Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), all theory and wisecracks. Scheider is occasionally too recessive for his own good, while Shaw is too excessive...
...what passes for independence is a clammy rented room and a hot plate. An estimated 2,000 oldsters cling to life in $15-a-week furnished rooms in Boston's shabby South End. A few others find homes in peeling, decrepit residential hotels like the once elegant Miami resort where Mrs. David Yates, 90, gets a suite of rooms, maid service and two meals a day (no lunch) for $500 a month. People who cannot afford even this much may sometimes find a plain but safe haven in public housing projects specially designed for the elderly, which offer...
...between adultery and hellfire has never been more firmly drawn in a modern setting. Meanwhile, upstairs in the penthouse, we learn a Conradian lesson--that if men in a dangerous situation act together, under the obvious leadership of men like Steve McQueen, they will be saved; but if they resort to the every-man-for-himself law of the jungle, they will die a horrible death...