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...Friendship can be a true kinship, an intimacy that lasts a lifetime. But some people who think of each other as close friends are merely companions of convenience, their bond formed through proximity at the office or in neighborly chats along the back fence. They may not understand each other, may not even like each other much, but somehow they see each other all the time. That kind of attachment has grown up between the Jacksons, a shy, stiff couple who live with their adolescent daughter in the built-up London suburb of Ruislip, and their Canadian-born neighbors...
...naturalistic bursts of action and spotlighted soliloquies. Much of the story is told after the fact, in an elegiac, ruminative tone, reminiscent of $ recent work by Tom Stoppard and Simon Gray. The epilogue leaves open the central question: When intimacy based on false assumptions still feels genuine, what does friendship mean...
Campomanes denied that his friendship for Karpov influenced him and claimed that he had not made his final decision until the start of the press conference. But the press agency TASS began reporting his action even before he spoke, and suspicion mounted that the Soviets had acted to protect their large investment in a status symbol they regard as a more suitable cultural ambassador at large than the youthful, half-Armenian, half-Jewish Kasparov. As David Spanier, British author of Total Chess, put it, Karpov is the ideal Soviet champion, "a very Russian Russian who follows the party line...
...Middle East expert. He ordered me to follow events in the area. Analysts in the Middle East Department were worried. "Things are bad," one of them told me early in 1971, referring to the fact that the Egyptians were stalling Moscow on concluding a long-sought treaty of friendship designed to bind Cairo firmly into an alliance. A friend told me, "Opinions are beginning to solidify in the leadership that we have to be rid of (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat. Sadat is a scoundrel. The only problem is that we don't have a really strong figure to take over...
...good family, has a minor automobile accident a week before he is to marry Caroline Braxley, a debutante of equally impeccable social standing. Unfortunately, he is not alone in that car; Lee Ann Deehart, a young working woman with whom he has enjoyed an innocent but romantic friendship, runs away from the scene and disappears. Complicated codes of honor come instantly into play. It never occurs to Nat not to tell his fiancee about Lee Ann's presence; Caroline and her parents in turn have no interest in censuring him or his presumptive faithlessness. The problem is that the wedding...