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...brief moment last week, the heady days of Lech Walesa's Solidarity labor movement seemed to return to Poland. Heeding an appeal broadcast by the union's clandestine radio station, Warsaw motorists honked their horns at the stroke of noon and snarled traffic for 15 minutes in the city's busiest intersection. Several thousand onlookers, many flashing victory signs, cheered the drivers with chants of "Solidarity" and "Free Walesa" as part of the suspended union's efforts to protest the imposition of martial law five months before...
...this as an allegory of the artist as outcast. As embellished by Edel, Wilson the critic is like Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who endured the stench and nursed the archer. Wound-dresser is a limited and benign definition of a critic who laid open many a reputation with one stroke...
...rowing scenes, however, are exciting and meticulously described by that the most interesting and readable portions of the book Kiesling seems to remember every stroke of every race he rowed for four years and makes even non-rowers feel the pain and the adrenaline of a race In particular. The Race, the grueling, four-mile marathon held annually in June between Harvard and Yale's heavy weight crews...
DIED. Celia Johnson, 73, refined British actress, best remembered for her role as the respectable suburban matron in love with Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter (1946); of a stroke; in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. A veteran of the English stage since 1928, Johnson endeared herself to U.S. audiences through such films, besides Brief Encounter, as In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1947) and Captain's Paradise (1953), in which she embodied the quintessential Englishwoman, mature and intelligent. Last year she was made a Dame of the British Empire...
DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...