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Outside, he moved in a magic circle of surrealists, hardheaded Partisan Review editors and cafe philosophers who lived from hand to mouth, mostly mouth...
...Bessie Smith. After her mother's death in 1954, she abruptly stopped singing and became a practical nurse until forced to retire by hospital administrators who thought she was 70; she was 82. Rediscovered then at a party, she performed to capacity audiences at a New York City cafe until last summer...
LADY ANTONIA Fraser site in the Harvard Bookstore Cafe, graciously signing copies of her books, sipping white wine and smiling at the long line of admirerers. She sighs as a woman asks her to sign her daughter's copy. "My daughter keeps on writing books. I want her to have a baby." This is the same woman who writes of such heroines as Mary Queen of Scots. But she is quick to point out that she is also a wife and mother...
...complete the portrait, Fraser was married in 1980 to Harold Pinter(her second marriage). Pinter looked ill-at-ease signing a copy of Betrayal in the Harvard Bookstore Cafe. He had eluded the crowds during his wife's appearance in Boston, until he was spotted in a corner. Asked about her, he replied, "I have nothing to say. I'm here escorting her as protector." Not that a woman who combines femininity and feminism needs a protector, but Fraser seems pleased nonetheless...
They managed furtive meetings, sometimes in her apartment, occasionally at a fast-food cafe or ill-lit parking lot and, once, during a reckless, heady weekend in San Francisco. Yet theirs was no ordinary tale of frustrated needs and petty betrayals...