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...Mitchell gets more personal, recounting her mother's disapproval of a live-in boyfriend. Mitchell's reply: "For God's sake!/I'm middle-aged, Mama." And on the album's best song, Harlem in Havana, Mitchell summons up childhood memories of sneaking off to watch risque carnival sideshows. "Aunt Ruthie would have cried," she sings. "If she knew/We were on the inside...
There are two things to keep in mind as you try to sort this out. Many women think they're at high risk when they're not; just because your aunt developed breast cancer doesn't mean you'll get it. Moreover, researchers are starting a new breast-cancer-prevention trial comparing tamoxifen with raloxifene, another anti-estrogen, which in limited testing showed fewer side effects...
...death. The father believes that everything can be measured, even the density of ice on the local pond. It will take a catastrophe to teach him that his logic has holes. But the episode's true poetry is in scenes of the boy's love for his father and aunt. God, we see, is in a child's easy embrace...
Mario Vargas Llosa the politician ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
...blamed "family history," her father, her grandfather. An old aunt, dying, said, forget that, you're a drunk. The author went through detox, then months in which her shaking hands shook less. And finally--family history, of course--learned to fly-fish properly. Taught, she insists, by a vision, possibly supernatural, of a naked man, fly rod in hand, drifting down a river on a raft. Sure. Anyhow, she is now able to cast a Royal Coachman so that the fly walks on water, "and the circle of fish shatters like beads in a kaleidoscope, bathing me in light...