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...feels responsible for his.own "family" as well and finds himself playing a stern Victorian father when Brodie is seduced by an aristocratic lesbian. Meanwhile, the threatened I.R.A. London offensive remains stalled, and a host of coconspirators barges into the complicated story. On this surface, The Family Arsenal glitters. American-born, Theroux has nonetheless acquired an ear for varieties of British speech. His book is crammed with comic dialogue and Pinteresque moments of tongue-tied malevolence. Descriptive passages are often telling and wise: "He had always hated public houses; they were dirty and uncongenial, the haunts of resignation, attracting men whose...
Judith Blegen and Frederica von Stade (Charles Wadsworth, piano and harpsichord; Gervase de Peyer, clarinet: Gerard Schwarz, trumpet; Columbia: $6.98). Two brilliant young American-born singers team up with a superior set of instrumentalists in a glowing recital of vocal music. The mood shifts in a varied repertory that encompasses Schumann's playful duet Das Glück as well as Chausson's haunting Chanson Perpetuelle, sung with grave beauty by Von Stade. Blegen's supple trills whirl with Gerard Schwarz's bright trumpet through Alessandro Scarlatti's aria Se geloso e il mio core...
...Cassidy, who has indicated her desire to become a nun and had been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds...
...family and other Ford aides finished, Mao walked a few steps to the center of a semicircle of chairs and was helped back down by his nurse. Those who remained for the business meetings were directed to the proper chairs. On Mao's right was his interpreter, American-born Nancy Tang; next on the right was Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who chain-smoked through the meeting. The other Chinese were on Teng's right...
...Park skater and sometime impromptu stickman, claims he "really learned the game" from none other than Robert Lewis. Seems that when they were both correspondents at TIME'S Boston bureau from 1970 to 1972, Lewis brought a table-hockey game to town and spent countless hours trouncing his American-born colleagues...