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...here to learn from other," said Dina R. Gerber '88, one of the Hillel organizers of the dinner...
Glamour is the rage this fall, and prime time is overflowing with ornately dressed, immaculately coiffed leading ladies who glide through fabulous worlds of wealth, power, romance and high-style intrigue. Some of them, such as Fairchild and Dina Merrill in Hot Pursuit, are campy bitches modeled after Joan Collins' conniving Alexis Carrington Colby. Others, like Dynasty's Linda Evans and Dallas' Priscilla Presley, are equally fanciful angels of goodness and nobility. Still others, like this season's spate of high-living private eyes, are just girls who want to have fun. But all of them...
...degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and runs a bookstore; the Cuyamese citizens, whose culture he hopes to elevate, stay away in droves. Aubrey's wife Dina broods on her mixed Hindustani and Portuguese origins and roundly hates her native grounds: "Nothing worthwhile had ever been created on this sterile patch of earth perched on the edge of a cruel continent; and nothing worthwhile ever would be." Meanwhile, the constitution that was so carefully drawn up when...
...called People's Plebiscite, which will in fact legalize dictatorship, must be stopped. Aubrey writes letters to editors, signs manifestoes. Dina looks on skeptically: "His passion, his sincerity, could not be disputed. The only thing that could be disputed was his capacity to stem the tide of events." Aubrey's spirits soar when Alexander Richer, an old college friend and now a prominent British journalist, responds to a whim and decides to visit Cuyama for a few days. Aubrey tells Dina: "It's a great coup for us to have him' coming out here." Perhaps...
...journalist, a self-avowed "moral butterfly" with an airline ticket out, finds himself bored by Cuyama almost as soon as he lands. He has seen poverty and post-colonial delusions of grandeur before, and will again. Dina sinks further into liberating despair, secretly desiring the destruction her husband campaigns against...