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...shape of Calvino's parables is a constant. Each embodies some philosophical conceit, some paradox of perception or memory, and each finds form in a peculiar kind of physical description. The invisible cities bulge with imaginative and very specific detail: Chloe is peopled by "a girl twirling a parasol on her shoulder," "a woman in black, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling," "a young man with white hair," and "two girls, twins, dressed in coral." In Eusapia, a city of the dead...
...game's first half was close, ending with a 5-4 Northeastern lead. Radcliffe opened the scoring with a goal by Barb Matson. Mars Child and Chloe Gavin also tallied for the Crimson, and Barbara Matson returned to score again: rounding out Radcliffe's attack. Northeastern's right wing highlighted first period play by registering a hat trick...
...Chloe, the narrator of Fay Weldon's new novel speaks for all women who believe that their intellects will never free them from their biology. To her credit, Author Weldon sees high comedy in this complaint. Her characters-Chloe, Marjorie and Grace-do indeed twitch to nature's rhythms, but the thralldom of their bodies is endlessly amusing to their unfettered minds...
...three are thrown together as schoolgirls during World War II. Evacuated from London to escape the blitz, Chloe and Marjorie arrive in Grace's village, where class barriers have sagged enough to allow Chloe-daughter of a widowed barmaid-into Grace's country house and Marjorie's company. The intimacies of this time are not forgotten. The girls move on to separate but similar lives. They marry, miscarry, share lovers and the care of children. They remain friends, although Chloe notes: "Our loyalties are to men, not to each other...
...Chloe wonders, and with good reason. The men in their lives have been uniformly childish and egotistical. The women's bodies bear the scars of childbirth and abortion; men have etched humiliation on their souls. Faced with her husband's latest infidelity, Chloe decides to spend a day in London visiting Marjorie and Grace. They too are in their early 40s, their pasts a stream of errors. Grace has become a shrill hoyden, Marjorie an asexual careerist. They bicker and discuss each other's failings with a cool dispassion usually reserved for inanimate objects...