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Oliver's Story begins in June 1969, 18 months after the death of Oliver's wife Jenny. Oliver Barrett IV has turned his back on his proper Boston family and an impressive textile fortune, and sunk himself into the defense of civil liberties, a basement apartment in Manhattan-and gloom. He goes to parties and he sits. When friends introduce him to pretty girls, he glowers and storms away. Finally, jogging in Central Park, he sees Miss Right II, a beautiful blonde named Marcie Nash, who captures his fancy by running faster than he does. They have dinner...
...Middle East he had been under machine-gun and mortar fire in Lebanon and Morocco. He had never been shot, however, until last week when he was mugged on Capitol Hill in Washington. He is now recovering from a stomach wound and pondering the ironies of chance. Barrett Seaman, moving from Chicago to Bonn, is aghast at the German bureaucracy. "The number of official forms to be filled out -in order to move in, get a phone, or do anything beyond buying a beer-is staggering." In London the directory of civil servants is classified information under the Official Secrets...
Apparently Ellen Barrett does not know the reason why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah...
That was undoubtedly asking too much. With gallows wit, Sorensen remarked: "Well, Gary Gilmore and I..." He told TIME New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett: "As someone said to me this morning, a lot of dirty little streams flowed together to make this flood. There was the extreme right, the Kennedy haters, the Carter haters. The smokescreen reasons-outright lies and falsehoods-masked the real opposition. To boil it down to one sentence, people felt that an outsider with my beliefs should not head that agency...
Amber Jim asked Gilmore what TV shows he liked best. He didn't watch TV, but he liked to go to drive-in movies and eat popcorn and potato chips with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett. Music? He liked all kinds, Gilmore confided, but cowboy music most-Hank Williams, Johnny Cash. And who did he think he had been in previous incarnations? Perhaps an Indian. "I feel close to Indians, and Indians like...