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...Lust for Life, and reduced it to five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with the same taunt; a blazing outdoor scene at Aries; the erotic Maya dream sequence; Madame Louise's brothel, where the psychotic Van Gogh cuts off his ear; and finally the shadowy deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...
...just before the Baghdad Pact riots in 1955, for Egyptian agents and Communist organizers to lead the mobs into the streets. But before it could begin, King Hussein got into his twin-engine de Havilland Dove, and flew off to a secret rendezvous at H-3 with his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...
...such a setting, Josh seems to pale to transparency, while Lexy glows with a passion that finally ignites Miri. At novel's end the cousins know that if they marry, it will be to each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language...