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SOME PEOPLE MIGHT GIVE UP their second-born to write as well as Kaye Gibbons, so graceful and spirited are her fictional histories of North Carolina women. In her fourth novel, Charms for the Easy Life, Gibbons presents Charlie Kate Birch, a midwife and self-proclaimed doctor who meets her ferryman husband as she crosses the Pasquotank River to deliver babies, nurse the sick and lay out the dead. Her granddaughter Margaret, narrator of the book, imagines, "Between my grandmother, her green eyes . . . and the big-cookie moon low over the Pasquotank, it must have been all my grandfather could...
Rudenstine said the conversation ranged from Akihito's interest in the environment and his fascination with white birch trees, to Michiko's pastime of translating Japanese poetry into English...
Used an FBI plane to haul firewood from New York City to Washington. (Sessions acknowledges flying the wood, but says it was only four pieces of white birch that his wife needed for decorating their house...
Director Theodore Mann and choreographer Patricia Birch, who staged the musical sequences, make remarkably rich use of a nearly bare stage. Ann Crumb, who starred in Aspects of Love in London and on Broadway, makes modest Anna's eruption into passion completely believable and is deeply affecting in her final derangement. Surrounding her are exceptional men: Gregg Edelman as the hapless gentleman farmer Levin, Scott Wentworth as a reckless but wholly admirable version of Vronsky and, most striking, John Cunningham, who overcomes caricatured writing of Anna's estranged husband to reveal a man poignantly wrongheaded...
...sham. And as usual, woe is what sells. Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story (Simon & Schuster; $22) tops the best-seller lists; Lady Colin Campbell's Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) and Nicholas Davies' Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage (Birch Lane Press; $21.95) are on the charts...