Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When we elevatored into the lobby of the Boston Garden offices there was a small crowd of expectant kids and well dressed middle aged fans, each waiting to see some person or other inside. When the ring police at the door curtly asked us what our business was, we said, "Joe Perkins...
Updike subtitles the novel "a romance," an artistic sleight of hand by which he allows himself the generous introduction of coincidences. The resonances of the original romance, the Garden of Eden parable, are plentiful. Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children...
...Stream. One pretty awful: Across the River and Into the Trees. (Mary recognized this as a disaster at the time, she reports. But Muses aren't hired to bring the bad news, and she didn't.) The last book, yet to be published, is The Garden of Eden, a story of a writer and his "triangular domestic arrangements," set mostly on the Riviera in the 1920s, which Mary describes cautiously as "containing some spots of excellent narrative...
...focusing on the specific reactions of the father, Bertrand Tavernier saves the film from triviality as well as tedium. The story of a young man rebelling against a garden variety of evil most people hardly notice could easily have become an exercise in moral smugness. But Bernard's act concerns us far less than his father's awakening understanding and acceptance of it. After the trial, at which Michel scandalizes everyone by announcing that he stands behind his son, he leans into the wind on a bridge over the Saone while Antoine indulges in a tirade against authority. Antoine...
...does not know any better than to try to "make hay" in a rose garden expect voters to think he possesses the qualifications necessary to be a successful President of the U.S.? Any grass-roots farmer would know better than that...