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...opening scene shows a bizarre gathering, what looks like a mixture of a seance and a suffragette fund-raiser at a musty Boston club. Featured performers are a "Dr." Tarrant, full-time charlatan, faith-healer, and medium. The message is provided by his charming, red-haired daughter Verena (Madeleine Potter) who, assisted by her father's attendant spirits, delivers a heart-wrenching address on behalf of oppressed women. The camera alternates between a prim-looking, middle-aged woman listening to Verena's rhetoric in mystic rapture, tears in her eyes: and a handsome young man, listening with appreciation that looks...
This sets up the ongoing conflict of the story: the fight-unto-death for the affections, body and soul of Verena between the two listeners. Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave) and Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve...
...ECCENTRIC woman of Brahmin origins, Olive has elevated suffragism to the level of a personal cult. Olive and Basil become enthralled by Verena, an earnest, sweet-looking, if not quite articulate enough character to make plausible her subsequent fame as an orator...
...suspected killer lay dying in a Singen hospital last week, he was identified as Günter Sonnenberg, 22, the No. 1 fugitive on West Germany's "Most Wanted" list. His companion, Verena Becker, 24, is now in West Germany's top security prison in Stammheim. Both had been involved with the terrorist Red Army Faction founded by Ulrike Meinhof, who hanged herself in prison last year, and Andreas Baader, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month (TIME, May 9). Responsible for a series of "anti-imperialist" bank heists, bombings of U.S. Army bases in Germany...
Collision Courses. Wolff bases his observations (and he emphasizes that these are all they are, pending further research this summer) on an experiment he conducted last year for a class project at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Aided by another doctoral candidate, Verena Hirsch, he spent two weeks studying pedestrian phenomena on Manhattan's 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Much of the experiment involved Wolff and Mrs. Hirsch setting themselves on collision courses with other pedestrians and gauging their reactions...