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...Widows of Eastwick, Updike revisits the three suburban housewives from Witches: Jane, Sukie and Alexandra. Old now and alone--their husbands have died of natural causes--they reunite and return to Eastwick to make peace with the many ghosts they left behind there: the rival they killed, the children they neglected, the lovers they dumped, their all-but-vanished sexuality and, not the least gruesome specter of the lot, the 1970s...
...question that Updike the Elder is putting to his younger self in Widows is this: Once the sex is gone, where does the power come from? ("Everybody needs power," Alexandra tells her daughter. "Otherwise the world eats you up.") Updike has spent his entire career writing about characters who are animated almost solely by the engine of Eros. Now the witches' sex lives are over, but their lives aren't, and you sense Updike's twinkly eyes peering cautiously into the darkness, beyond the glow of the merely fleshly, trying to make out what the world beyond might look like...
...Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...
...upcoming days.So far, Nemeth’s site is limited to Massachusetts, but she said she hopes the project will expand over time.“This or something like it is absolutely the way of the future,” she said.—Staff writer Alexandra Perloff-Giles can be reached at aperloff@fas.harvard...
...with his playmaking skills and who has earned the respect of everybody around him.And to Fucito’s satisfaction, the Harvard men’s soccer team may have finally garnered some respect.After all, they debuted in the polls this week ranked 22nd.—Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...