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...Three women in the small town of Eastwicks have shed their husbands and their traditional roles, and become witches. They use their powers to cause all sorts of mischief to townspeople they dislike: they have many male lovers, most of them married men. Along comes a wealth, sexy stranger. Darryl Van Horne. The witches all fall for him, he, after gratifying all three of them for a short while, marries a most unbe-witching girl named Jenny Gabriel. Shocked, the witches hex her (all the magic in the book is flatly effective), riddled with cancer. Jenny dies After her death...
...There's no greater thrill than to be representing the United States to the rest of the world," said freshman Bill Stanley, who along with classmate Darryl Laddin and sophomore Larry Scott are among the 128 invited to the Olympic trials next month...
...singles, only number-two seeded Bill Stanley, fifth-seeded Darryl Laddin and sixth-seeded Sy Fountaine snagged wins...
Things begin to turn nasty once the mysterious Darryl Van Home has settled in at one of Eastwick's eeriest old houses. Updike drops devilishly loud hints about who Van Home really is. Alexandra thinks of him as the "dark prince" and recognizes "his diabolical arts." When the witches join him in his oversize steamy teak tub for the first of a series of baths and orgies, Darryl asks, "You kids think this is hot? I set the thermostat 20° higher when it's just...
...that their satanic host acts and thinks like the piggiest of male chauvinists. Lunching with Sukie, Van Home feels "a surge of possessive pride in her beauty, her vital spirit. His. His toy." He runs them through some bizarre and degrading sexual hoops, but the playthings adore "our dear Darryl. Our leader. Our redeemer from Eastwick ennui." His ample house gives their new-found senses of identity room to burgeon: "In Van Home's realm they left their children behind and became children themselves." This is where the action is, Sukie muses, "not here in town, where bitter water...