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MARRIED. Harold Pinter, 50, English playwright (The Homecoming, Betrayal); and Lady Antonia Fraser, 48, socialite and biographer (Mary Queen of Scots, Royal Charles); both for the second time; in London. Lady Antonia has six children from her marriage to Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser; Pinter has one son from his marriage to Actress Vivien Merchant...
Sound familiar but somehow fiat? The more famous rendering of Psalms 8: 4 is rather more ringing: "What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?" But Christians in the English-speaking world had better get used to the neutered wording, for it may appear in the new edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible due a decade from now. The reworked RSV will include hundreds of such language changes made in the cause of stripping Scripture of "sexism...
...Shingen they convey warehouses of wisdom; as the thief they are the befuddled eyes of a clown. Eventually the two personas merge; so powerful is Shingen's spirit that merely by acting naturally the thief begins to duplicate his actions, almost to think his thoughts. When Shingen's son, Katsuyori, eager to assume his dead father's power by exposing the double, challenges the compulsorily silent double at a large meeting, Kurosawa doesn't cut to the double's face for the comic reaction of a man stuck in the spotlight who doesn't know what to say. Instead...
...stop the revolution because of "dynastic" reasons. Believing he had about six years to live, the shah "repeatedly" told Sullivan that "he could suppress his opponents for as long as he was alive, but he was afraid the revolution would then below up in the face of his son," who would succeed...
DIED. John Fischetti, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times whose acerbic drawings championed the downtrodden citizen while satirizing the mighty; of heart disease; in Chicago. The son of a barber in Brooklyn's Little Italy, Fischetti derived the title of his 1973 autobiography, Zinga, Zinga, Zal, from a cousin, who used the phrase to answer virtually all questions. "For me," wrote Fischetti, "the point of a political cartoonist is to take some of the zing out of the zinga, zinga...