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Describing his Quaker parents and Chicago boyhood, Rorem vividly evokes a vanished time when certain American middle-class families combined strong moral convictions with cultural avidity and a surprising broadmindedness. In the budding composer, these tendencies took more extreme forms than were typical: he was a lifelong pacifist, revealed a precocious appreciation of modern music (Stravinsky) and poetry (T.S. Eliot), and -- beginning at age 14 -- fearlessly cruised the local park for anonymous sex with...
...Bill Clinton's boyhood home of Hope, Arkansas, they sell a postcard showing a picture of his grammar school class -- Bill's shy, boyish face unmistakable. On the back of the card, the fine print reports that young Bill was so smart that the other kids used to go over to his house "just to watch him think." All the kids enjoyed an amazing display last week as they watched Bill Clinton thinking his way through the Haiti business. What a performance -- plates waveringly spinning on sticks balanced at the end of nose and chin and fingertips, a plate...
...Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese colleague who has been bidding for some of Heine's property. As Miyomoto sits in the snowbound courtroom, he is watched by his elegant wife Hatsue; she, in turn, is watched by Ishmael Chambers, a young reporter who has been in love with her since boyhood. Meanwhile, all the tensions and suspicions of the island become focused on the little courtroom, its windows rattled by the wind...
...American citizen, Rodriguez, 23, returned to Cuba for the first time last December. He was shocked by the smallness of the house he thought so large as a child, and by the simplicity of Cuban life, as well as by its tension and poverty. Many of his boyhood friends confided that "as soon as they got the chance they'd be out of there." He believes them: two cousins have arrived in the U.S. by raft in the past five years...
...originality as an artist began with his peculiar experiences of the natural world, such as the contorted rocks at Cape Creus, near his boyhood home, sculpted into fantastically ambiguous shapes by tide and weather; like faces seen in the fire, these were the foundation stones of what Dali called his "paranoiac-critical method" of seeking dream images. Dali's art may not tap far into his unconscious, but it reveals a great deal about what he imagined his unconscious...