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Fash's wife Barbara, an expert in the art andiconography of Copan, has received an appointmentat the Peabody Museum, Preucel said...
...belly buttons on the brain. The navel has traditionally been considered an important body part, central in more than just a physical sense. The ancient Greeks considered Delphi the omphalos, the navel and sprirtual center of the world, and 1950's television censors decreed that Barbara Eden's bellybutton could not peek out of her harem out fit on the otherwise ground-breaking show I Dream of Jeannie. But it's not the navel as a historical concept or source of titillation that has been occupying the dusty corners of my fevered brain, haunting my dreams and every waking moment...
British novelist Anita Brookner's 12th book comes as a welcome surprise--just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages) is not only wise but funny...
...blames her mother for everything, she finds out from an accidental ladies room run-in that her father has been involved with his travel agent, Zelda (Kelly Bishop) for years. To complicate matters even further, Gwyn learns that her brother, Jordan (Kevin Pollack) is leaving his pregnant wife Terri (Barbara Garrick) to move in with his business partner's supermodel wife, played by supermodel Naomi Campbell...
BRITISH NOVELIST ANITA BROOKNER'S 12th book comes as a welcome surprise-just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages; $23) is not only wise but funny...