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Born to an athletic family, the native Californian parlayed her skills to letter in two sports (soccer and basketball) during her junior year in high school...
...truth; he ransacks the victim's diaries, analyzes her work and interviews some hostile associates who believe "she got what she wanted"; "She mistreated everyone around her and finally was done in." A strange figure begins to emerge from the mists. From childhood on, Mowat observes, the coltish, willful Californian was beset with resentments toward the father who deserted his family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then abandoned the faith. Her social relations were equally unstable. She was involved in many liaisons and underwent an abortion, but no man held her interest for long...
...best known is Joan Didion, a native Californian with literary and intellectual power bases in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Lengthy excerpts from her book, simply titled Miami (Simon & Schuster; 240 pages; $17.95), appeared over the summer in the New York Review of Books. Didion's credentials as ; novelist and essayist are well established. Play It as It Lays set the '70s standard for Southern California malaise, and her journalism was carefully calibrated to record fine cracks in sanity and personal relationships. She has expanded more recent reportage and fiction (Salvador, Democracy) to poke along the fault lines of the commonweal...
Concerns about legality have led more families to hire American au pairs -- frequently teenage girls from the Midwest and often Mormons. "We Mormons come from big families, so we have experience with kids," explains Karen Howell, 19, a Californian who is spending a year with a Washington, D.C., family. "We don't drink, and we know the meaning of hard work." Two agencies -- the Experiment in International Living and the American Institute for Foreign Study -- have Government permission to bring in 3,100 European au pairs a year on cultural-exchange visas. Although the programs are more expensive than traditional...
...more deliberately jarring. His graphics are often intriguingly precarious collages, pages teeming with violently disparate visual elements. Ziggurat shapes and plant leaves appear obsessively ("I can't drop them"), and his posters are frequently fenced off with thick bars at the perimeter, frames within frames. His sensibility is Californian but more edgy than mellow. Surfaces are often made to look scratched and torn, and his palette has grown darker and richer over the past few years. "If I don't get a little resistance from clients," Manwaring says, "I don't like...