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...Times, Pinter reshapes the archetypes central to his work. In different ways, Deeley and Kate each fight to maintain their huddled numbness against incursions from the outside world, from the past, from the primal depths of their own subconscious. The catalyst of the conflict is Ann, Kate's companion of twenty years before. Anna brings a history heavy with menace, to upset the poor balance that Deeley and Kate had achieved through silence, and pierce their protective anaesthesia. Characteristically, Pinter leaves the true nature of the past events clouded in uncertainty--he himself does not claim to know exactly what...
John Kunst, then 25, was shot dead; David, with a bullet hole in one lung, flew home to Waseca to recuperate for three months. When he returned to Afghanistan to resume the journey, his companion was his other brother Peter, now 29. Refused per mission to cross China, the Kunsts trudged to Calcutta, then detoured to Australia...
...first act after graduation was to marry a childhood companion, Mary Todhunter Clark, member of a Philadelphia Main Line family that spent summer vacations near the Rockefeller home on the coast of Maine. The couple's ten-month, round-the-world honeymoon was more like a state visit, as members of both prestigious families vied to introduce them to sheiks, princes, poets and artists...
...proposed the first night he saw her, but she kept him waiting for two years before finally consenting, at the age of 28, to become Mrs. Richard Nixon. Once the vows were taken, she totally subordinated herself to his life and his ambitions, serving as wife, mother and uncomplaining companion on political platforms round the globe. "The only thing I could do was help him," she later said, "but it was not a life I would have chosen...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts is showing a selection of batiks from Java as a companion exhibit to the Fogg's Balinese show...