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...troubleshoot touchy racial problems, and hired as a top aide a young black social worker, James Clyburn. West also made a startling gesture for a South Carolina Governor by hailing the conviction (by an all-white jury) of three white men who overturned school buses in the strife-torn community of Lamar...
...other Rohmer stories, the protagonist is an amiably vain, self-righteous prig torn by his infatuation with two women. Adrien (Patrick Bauchau) is a dandified Paris antique dealer who decides to take a vacation from his mistress. His holiday goal at a friend's villa near St.-Tropez, he announces, is "to do and to be absolutely nothing." Unfortunately for his purposes, the villa is already occupied by a painter friend and by Haydee (Haydée Politoff), a pouty, bikini-clad young swinger who collects men much the way Adrien gathers antiquities. Her affairs with the painter...
...relatively innocent carpenter's apprentice and slowly immerse himself in the ways of thievetry, lechery, and general debauchery-only partially against his will. He is extorted by Jonathan Wiold, the Thief-Taker General (Peachum in Gay's play), ends up in Newgate Prison, escapes, is recaptured, hanged, then torn to pieces by souvenir hunters. Campbell's play is episodic, fast-moving, and filled with murky black dialogue. Senelick has expanded upon the episodic format of the text, so that time and the fairly simple plot are frequently interrupted by little extrapolative scenes. This is a hazardous technique, for such material...
...April 7, Kate, a Japanese cameraman, a Cambodian photographer and three Cambodian assistants vanished while covering some fierce fighting on Highway 4. Nine days later, Cambodian troops in the area found the bullet-torn and decomposing body of a Caucasian woman in a shallow grave; their discovery seemed to confirm fears that Kate had become the tenth journalist to die in Cambodia since the war spread there last spring (TIME...
...gossip was so widespread that the county coroner, who had examined the four, felt it necessary to deny each allegation. "These were four clean kids," he reported. Why, then, such talk? "Precisely because they were largely guiltless of any crime against society," Michener says, "they must be denigrated and torn down, because otherwise that society would have to declare itself guilty of murder...