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...Independent Counsel Alexia Morrison has spent a year and a half exploring accusations that former Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson gave false testimony to Congress in 1983 about the withholding of Environmental Protection Agency documents from a House investigating committee...
Will a reader, then, believe in salvation-by-adultery when proper Dr. Winters finally thaws with Alexia Reed, 35, who boasts "remarkable reddish-gold hair, green eyes, and a smacking style"? Hardly. But by then there's been a lot of lively conversation about Homer, Proust, Darwin and parenting, and Sicilian temples. Everybody talks just beautifully on Seton's bus. "The answer to the problem of alienation, to the difficulties of building a sense of community," she writes, "may be to put people on buses." It's not a bad way to keep an amiable but wobbling...
...Queen Anne-Marie's 19th birthday, and King Constantine, 25, celebrated it with her and seven-week-old Princess Alexia at his rambling hilltop villa on the western island of Corfu. Then he had to leave the party and fly back to his Athens palace for yet another attempt to resolve the seven-week-old parliamentary crisis...
...Alexia? The language is that of a literary acrobat cockily performing newly-learned tricks and listening slyly for applause. In one neon-streaked passage, Durrell preens so obviously that his arrogant virtuosity is amusing: "I question myself eagerly. Is this amusia, aphasia, agraphia, alexia. abulia? It is life.''* The narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce...