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...13th novel, traverses a terrain of the spirit as far removed from Belfast as the beach house in Malibu, Calif., where he now resides. His main characters are a California couple vacationing on the French Riviera. After a boating accident, the husband, a self-centered young physician named Alex Davenport, is taken to a local hospital with head injuries; a team of French physicians pronounces him dead. His widow Marie suspects foul play. "Did they kill him . . . because of what I didn't do?" she muses mysteriously. The phrase has a paranoid cast, as does her fear...
...frames-- and we'll all put down our books, walk out of our classes and spend the day with our new treasures, with our old friends, with Zonker. Mark. B D,. Joanie Rick, Uncle Duke, Rev. Sloan Huney, Mr. Slackmeyer, Phred, Bernie, J.J., Boopsie Zeke, Lacey and Dick Davenport, Roland B. Hedley Jr., Jimmy and jenny Thudpucker. Ellie. Howard, Riley, Woody, Lava-Lava, Dr. Dan Asher, kirby, Barney, Weinburger, Duane, Ginny, Clyde, Nicole and Mike Doonesbury...
Currier 9, Davenport-Pierson...
...LEFTY CARTOONIST Garry Trudesu has made heroes of few Republicans. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick, artfully portrayed as the aristocrat-legislator Lacey Davenport, is one of his exceptions. Adding welcome bursts of mature wit to the rambunctious world of "Doonesbury," Davenport pursues Washington no-good-niks with persistence and good taste. After vigorously lecturing a mobster friend of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan for making late-night death threats, she wonders aloud whether she has "hurt the poor man's feelings...
Lautenberg has also hinted at another blotch in the adoring Lacey Davenport portrait eccentricity and age Himself a careful, some times dull speaker, Lautenberg last month came right out and called his opponent an "eccentric" for her habit of rambling aimlessly during debates and reducing discussions to anecdotal comparisons. His wording was strong, but his point valid. In addition, many worry that Fenwick would as best be able to serve one full term if elected, while Lautenberg 58, clearly could represent the state for longer than that...