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...They're cousins, and What a Crazy Pair The name calling, the accusations, the ill will--oh, the fun that occurs in a family when a relative dies and money is at stake. Days after the death of advice empress Ann Landers (real name: Esther Lederer), her daughter and niece are engaged in a vitriolic feud like the one that once consumed Landers and her twin sister, Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren. Landers' daughter MARGO HOWARD, right, accused Van Buren's daughter, JEANNE PHILLIPS, left, of trying to cash in on Landers' death. Phillips, who inherited Dear Abby, went...
...Dehai never imagined he would marry his shy first cousin Hai. Though intramarriage was common in imperial days, it is taboo in modern China. But at age 20, with his friends already paired off, Liu found himself the odd man out. His parents, farmers in the village of Nanliang in Shaanxi province, could not raise the $2,000 required to attract a woman to Nanliang to marry their son. With so many men to choose from, women are loath to settle in hardscrabble villages like Nanliang. Desperate, Liu's mother contacted her sister and requested a favor: Could...
...ruminates. One of the oldest women mutters and squawks, professing vague memories of a cousin of that name who left as a little girl. "Come," says the chief, "we must eat and drink." His house, a magnificent example of the Dai style, was built 10 years after Bua would have begun her long trek. I soon lose count of the glasses of firewater raised and quaffed, as the women bustle about, assembling a feast. My wife is the center of attention, showered with questions and hugs. Overwhelmed, she chokes back sobs. The chief raises his glass and asks for silence...
...their children are angels, at least some of the time. But Elizabeth Smart fits the storybook image better than many. She's a good student and athlete. Tall and willowy, she had played harp at her grandfather's funeral two days before she disappeared. She favors pale blue. Her cousin has heard her say idiot once. On the surface, there was no reason she should have been singled out by anyone...
...salonistas of The Sun Also Rises. They're innocents abroad, naive Candides hungry for an education, spiritual or otherwise. Take the character named Gurney, protagonist of John Beckman's The Winter Zoo. Gurney abandons his pregnant girlfriend in an Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze, art and piquantly incestuous sex. What makes the novel work...