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TAMPA, Fla.--Stu Barnes scored twice during a five-goal second period and Martin Straka added a goal and two assists as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning yesterday...
UPDIKE HAS DONE IT AGAIN. THE ABSURDLY PROLIFIC Boston area writer of nearly 50 tomes of poetry, criticism, children's literature and fictive adventures in sensuality-cum-neuroses, John Updike '54 brings us in Bech at Bay a fourth installment of the now aging Manhattan Jewish novelist, Henry Bech. In four short stories, Updike deftly sketches the extremely self-conscious life of a minor writer whose laurels and curls alike are withering on his crown and whose...
...BECH AT BAY...
...ever-so-slightlydoddering, luscious, highly sexualized andself-satirical backwards glance at a ratherunremarkable life of letters. His absolutelysucculent, if somewhat condescending descriptionsof leggy, perpetually nude women aside, Updikeexcels in dialogue, cocktail party dialogue, rifewith the sarcastic, incisive mental commentary ofBech. Some of the most revealing scenes in Bechat Bay are to be found in his alwaysflirtatious interactions with women and hisusually acrimonious, acute observations on theposturing of the men he encounters. We read histhoughts, and experience Bech and his worldmediated through Bech; we experience his doubt andself-deprecating double talk from his own perch, aplace oddly, humorously distanced from himself...
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