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Cities of the Plain (Knopf; 293 pages; $24) is the concluding novel of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. Like All the Pretty Horses, winner of the 1992 National Book Award for Fiction, and The Crossing, published two years later, Cities tells the story of cowboy John Grady Cole and his trailmates as they drift south of the border to find respite from modern encroachments. The time is 1952, about when pickups started looking prettier than horses. The starting place is New Mexico, nursery to the atomic...
...salsa yonder") and terse fatalism ("When things are gone they're gone"). On the other hand there is something unfashionably noble in McCarthy's uncompromising passion to land the big one. It takes a risky independence to still use old-fashioned symbolism with obvious religious overtones. To some, Cole's romance with Magdalena, an epileptic Mexican prostitute, will suggest the New Testament and a disorder once thought to be a gift from God. To others, the relationship of a young cowboy and a convulsive whore will sound like the subject of a bunkhouse joke...
...Vegas-born designer, 40, got his start designing swimsuits for Anne Cole and had his own line of sports clothes for several years. He boasts that he once sold 5,000 five-piece matching outfits with their own carry bag in five minutes on QVC. "They were $79.95," says Duke. "You couldn't even walk into a store and get two pieces for that." With the same optimistic exuberance, Duke picked up a phone and sold himself for the job at Halston after reading in the papers that the label was being resurrected...
Eddie O'Hare, 16, finds himself working during the summer of 1958 as an assistant to Ted Cole, a well-known writer and illustrator of children's books. Also at the Cole house on Long Island, N.Y., are Ted's beautiful wife Marion and daughter Ruth, 4. And there are hundreds of framed photographs on the walls depicting the Cole sons Thomas and Timothy. They were 17 and 15 when they were killed, five years earlier, in a car crash. Their parents, in the backseat, survived unhurt but devastated...
...creating an atmosphere conducive to violence, and ordered them to pay nearly $86,000 to the abortion clinics where they protested. The campaigners vow to appeal, but the case looks likely to open the legal floodgates. ?With a verdict in their favor,? says TIME Chicago bureau chief Wendy Cole, ?the plaintiffs can now seek a permanent nationwide injunction? -- which would prevent the Pro-Life Action League and Operation Rescue from protesting any clinic in the country...