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...buffed and sanded ladies of the workout era. They were usually, though not necessarily, busty, and almost always Caucasian. And always very American: the ideal of the middle-class Midwestern boy who ran the magazine. Even the German models Hefner added for spice in 1961 (Heidi Becker, Christa Speck) looked like red-white-and-blue farm girls...
Many Americans watched the explosion of the space shuttle CHALLENGER live on television. Teacher Christa McAuliffe and six others were aboard. The image of the fireball and trails of smoke inspired disbelief...
...Soviet Union has opened to foreigners. Christa (Kit) Malone, no longer a lonely adolescent girl, makes a pilgrimage to Russia to excavate the true history of her relationship with Innokenti Isayevich Falin, a recently exiled Russian poet. He has vanished under mysterious circumstances—with his life’s work—and Kit has published her translations of his poems under her name. Whatever she unearths about his mystery, it is also her own: Kit’s journey to Russia reconciles her to her own past as much as to Falin?...
...could never be important in her life” caused many sleepless nights. The names of Watson’s many romantic interests grace the pages: Sheila Griffith, Linda Pauling, Rachel Morgan, Mariette Robertson, Margot Schutt, and Belinda Bullard. Most of all, though, Watson speaks about his relationship with Christa Mayr, daughter of Ernst Mayr, a famous biologist at Harvard...
Watson chronicles virtually every meeting with Christa from June 1953 to December 1955. His description of the 17-year-old Christa as a “full-bodied woman, no longer the gangly child of earlier memories” betrays his fascination with nubile youth. Watson reports that “her face and voice made butterflies rumble through [his] stomach,” but such attempts at poetic description usually fall short. Their formal relationship begins in August 1954: “After a long walk down and back the country road beside their house, we started kissing...