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...been crossing the country in her wheelchair, the CB-equipped Iron Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick, the ex-football bruiser turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley, the perfect housewife from Calumet City, Ill. Mrs. Beasley's brain is a pincushion of anxiety. "These days it's not enough for a housewife to be loving and neat as a pin," she frets. "We must...
...earned an M.A. in foreign affairs at Oxford after his Annapolis years, the Chicago-born Turner has logged an impressive career both at sea and on land. Most of his ship time has been served aboard destroyers; after receiving his two rear-admiral stars in 1970, he commanded a cruiser-destroyer flotilla that stalked the Soviets' Mediterranean squadron. The following year he went to the Pentagon as the Navy's director of systems analysis...
...Fight. K turned out to be little better than L. She got a cabin cruiser, but Rees left her, too, when he found out that she was a "lesbian swinger and crazy." Eluding the purported gunmen -he did not explain how-the fugitive moved on, alone, to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, "where every time I looked around the FBI was on my trail...
Linked to the Patriarch's slipping are the tropics continually decaying: dusty palms, the band playing on Sundays in the park, the abandoned American cruiser rusting at its dock. The brilliant fantasy of Garcia Marquez's details exorcizes tropical nostalgia, and makes The Autumn of the Patriarch the rarest novel to appear this year...
After talking a while, fiddling with his radio, and wasting enough time to let any half-wise robber disappear, the first policeman told his partner and the student to get in the car, and they moved out. The cruiser raced back to catch the criminal with its high beams on and blue lights flashing. Even a sleeping wino would have fled the area. The cruiser drove right onto the Common as if it expected to find someone waiting there, but the Common, of course, was empty...