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FICTION: The World According to Garp, John Irving ∙ Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ The Human Factor, Graham Greene ∙ Another I, Another You, Richard Schickel Kalki, Gore Vidal
...have aspirations. All accounts agree, including hers: she did it to herself. John Clifford, director of the Los Angeles Ballet company, knew the young Gelsey and was not entirely charmed. "Gelsey was born mad at the world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...
...Nancy took a job and found work for Gelsey as a child model. She detested it "because it was so upsetting to miss a class." A dance scholarship came to the rescue and put her in classes 12½ hours a week. Twice a day she and her classmate Meg Gordon donned rubber sweat pants and took turns stretching each other's legs, an ordeal that often left Gelsey weeping. Her muscles were taut and had to be tugged mercilessly if she was to achieve extension, the astonishing limb span demanded of great dancers...
...committee would have considered tenuring Walker on April 28, Gordon R. Willey, Bowdwitch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology and acting Antropology Department chairman, said yesterday...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles Final Payments, Mary Gordon The Human Factor, Graham Greene The World According to Garp, John Irving