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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iwas walking in the dark and mysterious tunnels of Cabot House one day when an old friend of mine accosted...
...daughter named Pearl. This mother too is a fallen woman, running away from Massachusetts and her physician-husband of some 20 years to join a charismatic Indian guru's ashram in the Arizona desert. After her plane lands in Los Angeles, she relays a message home to her best friend Midge: "I stayed in this motel near the airport in a dreary area called Hawthorne...
...story of Sarah's pilgrimage unfolds through the missives she sends from the ashram: to her husband, daughter, mother, friend, psychiatrist, hairdresser and assorted others. With her nearest and dearest, Sarah fends off recriminations by going on the offense. She hectors her husband about his affairs with his nurses and the upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living...
Dukakis has learned well how to bury his feelings. In early campaigns his manager, Francis Meaney, used to stand close behind him and remind Dukakis to tell voters he needed them. The candidate was always too impersonal. Even with longtime friends, Dukakis has kept up his guard. They have to be satisfied with the little he gives. "The electrons," says a friend of 25 years, "flow only one way." The most personal kind of event, like the suicide attempt years ago of his older brother, is stowed so deeply that Dukakis says he cannot remember what happened...
...treated like a subject in bad taste." When parents do talk, the instruction is likely to be minimal. Tracy Gary remembers one such childhood directive. "This is a quarter," her mother told her. "You have a lot of choices. You can donate it, save it, loan it to a friend...