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Men's perfervid expectations drove Ruth to murder, Marilyn to fatal overdose. Metaphorically, both women "die of intimate exposure," to quote a character in Insignificance known only as the Actress (Theresa Russell) but plainly meant to represent Monroe. The other three main characters find real-life correlatives just as easily...
Now you’ll strike back with the argument that music, as entertainment, doesn’t necessitate the exploration and growth that I speak of. Pop music can simply exist in the forms it’s already discovered; if the Beatles are a good band, which none...
SEEKING REDIVORCE. Cristina Ferrare, 34, Los Angeles TV talk-show host; and John De Lorean, 60, ex-automaker and the ex-husband she thought she had divorced in California last April; in Somerville, N.J. Ruling on a petition by De Lorean challenging the California court's jurisdiction, a New Jersey...
The first lesson is that television has replaced clocks and calendars as an index of significant events. Martin, the narrator, recalls the moment when his wife introduces the subject of divorce: "Alex had turned to me during one of those postcard breaks on MacNeil-Lehrer and said she thought we...
Given this pervasive electronic wallpaper, Martin naturally describes characters in terms ready made for a passive audience. The lawyer he chooses to represent him in the divorce is "a guy who looked like Wayne Newton." An oddly menacing figure who turns up at Dominica's motel "looked like Dustin Hoffman...