Word: flings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gretchen isn't infatuated with the President. She's just enjoying her brush with history, a fling she says she might tell her grandkids about. (Linda Tripp suggested the same thing to Monica.) If only Monica had been so clear eyed. She made the mistake of thinking she was in love with a self-involved, pudgy 50-year-old who had a wife and a killer schedule that left no time for champagne, candlelight or pillow talk. If she'd realized it was the presidency she was swooning over, not the President, and spent more time pushing her ideas...
...strength of that umbilical bond in her first novel, Amy and Isabelle (Random House; 304 pages; $22.95). In the small New England town of Shirley Falls, Isabelle Goodrow is a single mother with a shameful secret: her daughter Amy, 16, is illegitimate. As if in atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares her isolation...
Catherine B. Cogley '01, who lives in Lowell House, agrees that keeping in touch with former roommates takes a little initiative. Although Cogley lives with four out of her five original suitemates, she says she frequently meets the fifth roommate, Holly E. Fling '01, for lunch in Kirkland House...
...premise behind The Compleat Works of Wllm Shakspr (abridged) is simple and stunning. A reduced cast, with reduced props, reduces the entire body of Shakespeare's work into a svelte two-hour fling whose high purpose is to reintroduce to Shakespearean Production the lost quality of side-splitting humor...
...Rudolf Nureyev really have a fling with Bobby Kennedy? This recently surfaced rumor isn't mentioned in the new biography of the most celebrated male ballet dancer of the postwar era. But even so, Nureyev's list of lovers was quite sufficiently star studded. (Did they or didn't they? Only Mick Jagger knows for sure.) Fortunately, Diane Solway is interested in more than just gossip, and her fact-crammed, plainly written chronicle is the most detailed and dependable account to date of Nureyev's hectic life. What fails to come through, oddly enough, is his artistry--if you never...