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...would-be writers and involuntary collectors of rejection slips invariably get around to the legend of William Kennedy. How his fourth novel came bouncing back from publishing houses 13 times, and how two of his earlier books, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, seemed doomed to remain a dyad rather than parts of the trilogy their author had planned. Enter a deus ex machina in the person of Saul Bellow, a Nobel laureate, no less, who administered a scolding to those who had rebuffed Kennedy's manuscript and thereby inaugurated a streak of magic. When Ironweed finally appeared...
Accordingly, he says, we should not expand our forces, but retrench them. Ravenal would accomplish this by moving from the United States' present "triad" of nuclear forces to a "dyad." The U.S. should keep its bombers and submarines, he insists, but remove all its land-based missiles (veritable "sitting ducks," as he calls them) as they become more vulnerable to attack...
...Black Dyad. More on the age-old battle in this dramatic analysis of black male/female relationships. Skillfully danced at the First Postion Workshop, 145 South Street, February 22 at 2 p.m. Donation...
...domes and minirails. But as visitors are discovering in increasing numbers as the summer wears on, the 1,000-acre site is also studded with dozens of delightful surprises in the form of 20th century sculpture, ranging from Aristide Maillol's 1908 Desire to a 1967 blue, geometric Dyad by Saskatchewan's Robert Murray. And while most of the Expo sculpture executed in the 1960s would not raise an eyebrow at Venice or in a far-out Manhattan gallery, it is provoking plenty of conversation in Montreal, where many fairgoers are receiving their initiation into the nuances...