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Improbable as it might seem, Clio Goldsmith, 25, gave little thought to a career in acting until two years ago. The Paris-born niece of British Financier Sir James Goldsmith, 49, has since finished eight European movies. "I hardly see myself as a sex symbol," says she, "but it is lovely pretending." American audiences will have their first chance to see her pretending in The Gift, a French farce due out in March. As the going-away present given to a retiring banker by his office chums, Goldsmith is a dimpled, tousled-haired romp in the hay who might just...
...balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction, intermingle to make each story strikingly circular, each one returning to a face, a memory, or a symbol that invoked the episode in the first place. At the last, Naylor completes the haunting cycle, bringing together, spiritually or physically or both, the lives of all the women with the life cycle of the street itself...
...Renaissance Center stands as a symbol of what is possible when people who live and work in a city combine their efforts toward a common goal." So said Michigan Governor William Milliken five years ago of Detroit's new $357 million cluster of five glass towers, a 32-acre complex aimed at reviving the city's decaying downtown area. Now Ren Cen stands as a symbol of hard times. The center defaulted last week on its mortgage debt of more than $200 million by failing to make a scheduled payment of $10 million...
...Christmas symbol so devoid of content that it could not possibly offend anyone is probably what is needed. But nobody would be interested...
Although he stresses that "as far as exams in particular--we have no magic." Catlin emphasizes that therapists "can help students to look specifically at the exam--not as a symbol of anything more." In addition, the twelve service staff members--five psychiatrists, four psychologists, and three psychiatric staff workers--attempt to reassure students that they "have resources." After all, Catlin says, they come to Harvard because they are talented students...