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Although a good so By David Baker I pf rrvmitv uy uomviio aiovic/ ?i?tp The Promise is nothing more than a classy soap opera in book form. The novel was written by Danielle Steele, and is based on an original screenplay by Garry Michael White. The odd thing about The Promise is that it was published well in advance of the film it is based on. Most novel izations are published only after the movie has made auite a hit of mnnpv The first printing of The Promise was released in April, while the film, which stars Kathleen | Quinlan, Stephen Collins and Beatrice Straight, will not be in any theatre before February. The Promise begins on the streets of Boston, where Nancy McAllister and Michael Hillyard are bicycling. They arrive at a carnival, and he wins her a blue plastic necklace, which they subsequently bury under a rock to signify their undying love. inh; tuuPLK returns to school and while Nancy goes to work on an unfinished painting, Michael goes to inform his mother, Marion, of the wedding plans. Marion loses control and forbids the marriage, . fearing that it will interfere with >U WANT T< fly! Many of us have had t n luck. Air Force ROTC Fligh ; of flight through flying less< ; who can qualify to becorru -IP is the first step for the C( This is al his life off th wings. Check clumsy, rxn onpra ~ r- ? ? Michael taking over the family's construction business. In retaliation, the two rush off to elope, but their journey is cut short by an automobile accident. Nancy's face is crushed and Michael is in a coma for weeks. While Michael is out, Marion goes to Nancy and promises to buy her a new face if she will go away and promise never to be heard from again. Sure that Michael will OAn?*nU Vi At* rviif KT nn Ait acctivn net uui, naiitjr agiccs. Marion whisks her off to San Francisco, and when Michael regains consciousness, Marion tells him that Nancy was killed in the crash. After many months of surgery, Marion's San Francisco surgeon is able to restore Nancy's lost beauty. She changes her name to Marie Adamson and changes her career from artist to photographer. During this time, Michael becomes a celibate tycoon. WHEN MICHAEL'S associates in san rrancisco tell him they're having trouble getting a certain girl to decorate the walls of a new office complex the company is finishing, he decides that he could use a vacation, and so flies there to talk with the disagreeable young lady personally. Of course, the young lady is Marie, who won't work for Collins ) FLY? s' he feeling. . . and for som t Instruction Program (FIP) )ns in small aircraft at a civ i Air Force pilots through A idet who is going on to Air I reserved for the cadet whi ie ground. . . with Air For it out today. pTHE IFOMISE because she thinks he never tried to find her because of her ugly face. She doesn't tell him that, however, and since Michael doesn't recognize her with the new features, he can't comprehend Marie's refusals. tToonfllDllu fKrt tufA rnnnitn nn<4 m-j w vinuHii; | uiv inv i vuiuiv, onu the way it is accomplished is quite intriguing. In fact, the entire book is pretty interesting, if you can overlook one major flaw . . . Michael never asks to see Nancy's grave. As lovesick as Michael is after the accident, you would think he'd want to spend most of his time at the burial site, but its location, or even its existence, for that matter, is never mentioned. MUCH OF the book was obviously concocted for the screen, and Steele does nothing much to flesh out any of the characters. Her writing style is quite often clumsy, and her storytelling abilities seem limited to dialogue. But as soap operas go, The Promise is as good as you could hope for. The movie will probably make a mint. 1 1 e it has never 1 I is available to 8 1 'ilian operated I ; | ir Force ROTC. I I Force jet pilot I I j o wants to get 1 j ce silver pilot S j