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Arthur and his wife Rita, 50, were well liked by neighbors in the prosperous five-family cul-de-sac. Alone in their brick four-bedroom home after their three grown children moved away, the couple was involved in local civic work. Arthur had helped form the block's anti-crime program, and served as president of both a local civic league and a swim club. Recalled one neighbor: "They were an all-American family...
...disclosures, the introspections and secret desires give diaries their special appeal. This assemblage compounds the interest; reading it is like screening other people's dreams--at once intriguing and familiar. For Sylvia Plath's need to write in her notebook when she is "at wits' end, in a cul-de- sac. Never when I am happy" is not unique to depressed poets. Lord Byron notes, "Clock strikes--going out to make love. Somewhat perilous, but not disagreeable." Boswell reports, "I awaked at noon, with a severe head-ach. I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such...
...discussing a book. The narrator, Christopher Gates, is the decorator son of one of the dozen in the Book Class. He believes that they and their peers had a remarkable and unrecorded influence on New York, and hence America, in the days before women "got sidetracked in the dreary cul-de-sac of men's jobs." He makes it his task to write their history and, through the mechanics of the sometimes awkward plot, persuades nearly every one of them to pour out her heart...
...little cul-de-sae was badly paved, full of humps and holes, bordered by narrow, partly ruined sidewalks. It worked its way like a finger between private houses of one or two stores, pressing one against the other. The little street stopped at iron gates overgrown with scraggly vines...
...whose work varies so wildly in meaning and quality. What can be said of raucous ephemerids like Rainer Petting that will also apply to deeper men like Anselm Kiefer? The Germans, understandably, have extolled all of it because the resurgence of expressionist figuration offers a way out of the cul-de-sac in which German painting and sculpture found themselves after 1945. Hitler had trashed the avantgarde, driving modernism into exile or up the chimney. For a quarter of a century after that, German artists wore the virtuous American uniform of abstract art, as proof of their denazification. Now they...