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...specific range of a single novel. Fools of Fortune, while it is engrossing stuff like virtually everything Trevor writes, takes on too great a task in too little space. ranging over the years 1918 to 1983, including a story of doomed love between an Irishman and his English cousin, and rupturing the plot with a devising tragedy in which the young protagonist's father and sisters are massacred by the "Black and Tans," Fools of Fortuneencompasses the sort of tragedy and desolation that might have kept Thomas Hardy going for a few hundred pages. In many respects this...
Marianne, Willie's beloved cousin from England, takes up the narrative from the time of her pregnancy by him. She observes that "Destruction casts shadows that are always there," and she herself is "haunted by fragments of disjointed dreams in which [she] was endlessly pursued by [her] parents' weeping"; for Marianne has left her comfortable home in England to come on a hopeless search and then long vigil for Willie. And she proceeds wanted, like Hardy's Tess, from one to the other of Willie Quinton's old acquaintances, repeating the refrain "I am going to have Willie's baby...
...sandwich, one of their most popular items. To complete the line of dairy products. Leverett serves six kinds of ice cream which managers will scoop of frappe. Imported from the outside world is the "Chippey Pie," an ice cream sandwich trimmed with chocolate chips--a cousin of the popular Chipwicin sold by street vendors...
...game from Clifton, Va., claims, "It's better than charades, and that's hard to beat." She adds, "It's only frustrating when the kids know more than you do." In Hollywood, where game playing is sometimes the most exigent art form, Trivial Pursuit and its cousin Silver Screen are monster hits. During the filming of The Big Chill, the entire cast became addicted to the game, playing it night and day. Says Footloose Producer Craig Zadan, "There's not a person in the entertainment business who hasn't heard of the game, played...
...most reliable ally. Bewilderment, as he also calls it, is the 20th century's family secret: "Hidden in the darkest closets of all our institutions of higher learning, repressed whenever it seems to be emerging into public view, sometimes glimpsed staring from attic windows like a mad cousin of learning...