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...That place is a death hole for little kids," said Geneva Boykin, aunt of Margaret and Clyde Johnson, the two children who drowned last Saturday in a Harvard-owned pond in Jamaica Plain...
...hair like Veronica Lake. And I could almost believe it-even though my father and Jimmy Stewart have long since aged in opposite directions while my mother's face took on the lines and wrinkles by which, as a child, I had learned to identify my grandmother and great-aunt-mostly because the stories they would tell seemed to correspond with those of the movies I had seen...
...arriving at a climax with the absolute Tightness of a folk tale. "Just Like a Tree," the final story in his fine 1968 collection, Bloodline, could serve as the description for all Gaines' work. Making a slow concentric dance around the life and death of a matriarch named Aunt Fe, the story also anticipated Gaines' new novel...
Further South, another cousin told me about his friend, the "hippie of Beauregard High School," who always carries around a little done in his wallet. My aunt and uncle would be horrified if they knew that one of their son's friends smokes pot: my cousin himself is a Wallace man, but he isn't upset about his friend's proclivities...
...well as in the courtroom, alibis often tend to fall apart. A phone call to the wife pleading late work at the office, for example, is less than convincing with the noisy hilarity of a swinging singles bar audible in the background. Similarly, the hospital-visit-to-an-ailing-aunt ploy is apt to prove a dud with a boss whose receiver is also picking up the strains of a jukebox or the cries of a ballpark hot dog vendor. To prevent such pretexts from collapsing, help is finally at hand: alibi tapes...