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...generation gap conveniently yawns between Gallagher and his son Hill, a 19-year-old Sorbonne student anarchist. Paris has no real race problem, but Jones has kept in touch with the folks back home. He introduces a beautiful, chocolate-bar-chomping black female teenage destroyer of white domestic bliss whose tastes run to trilingual sex. ("She isn't immoral," one character reflects, adding, with the air of discovering a new word, "she's amoral...
There are certain psychic risks, of course, to a life led beneath the surface of domestic bliss. In the darkest Amazon, when a poison arrow proves nearly fatal, Margaret finds herself praying, "Paul, my darling, if I make it home to you ... I will learn to bake bread and make chocolate mousse." Here the most committed housewife asleep in her phoenix dreams will recognize that she and Margaret are soul mates. Few crises cannot be better met if the house is filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread. In the end, Margaret affirms the reality of her existence...
...colleague, David Cooper, calls the nuclear family the "ultimately perfected form of nonmeeting" and, in a new book called The Death of the Family, demands its abolition. These are extreme views, but it may be better to face the fierce aspects of family life than to expect only bliss. There is something of the disillusioned lover in many people who today are trying to live outside the conventional family...
...defense will have three starters-middle guard Rich Lolotai and defensive backs Dave Bliss and Dave Hoahan-back in the lineup, bringing the unit to full strength...
Other Eli starters coming off injuries are tight end Rich Maher, middle guard Rich Lolotai, and defensive back Dave Bliss, who were felled against Princeton, and safety Dave Holahan, wingback Bob Milligan and guard Bob Leyen, who sat out last weekend...