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...American anthropologist named Greenwood spends several years with the Shan people in Pawlu, a tiny village near the border between China and Burma. He marries and fathers a daughter before news of World War II belatedly reaches him, driving him from his remote adopted home to join the U.S. Army and the larger struggle. In 1949, back in the U.S., he receives a letter from Yang Yulin, a wartime comrade who is now a general in the Chinese Nationalist army. Yang has got hold of an anthropological treasure, the bones of Peking Man. He will flee the advancing Communist troops...
Reinhart is "housefather" in Winona's luxury apartment, sipping a vermouth cassis-he has forsaken his customary tumblers of bourbon-and garnering a local reputation for the classical cuisine. Hired by high-powered Grace Greenwood to demonstrate gourmet-food preparation in supermarkets, he is shocked to discover that the executive gorgon is Winona's lesbian lover. Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse...
...make,' Reinhart said, clapping his son on the shoulder ... I've got a job. You don't have to worry about me'... Foolishly, Reinhart was stung by the implication that he was lying. 'All right,' said he, 'you just ask Grace Greenwood. I start tomorrow. I'm going to demonstrate food products...
...wedding seems to represent a solid, splendidly dramatic investment, like the monarchy itself. "Take away the monarchy from England and you've got just a banana republic," observes Kenneth Greenwood, 52, a former Royal Life Guard who escorted then Princess Elizabeth at her wedding in 1947. "You can screw around with the government here, but you can't screw around with the royal family." Robert Goodden, whose Lullingstone silkworms spun out the stuff of Lady Diana's wedding gown, insists that "very few, outside the extremists, would want to do away with the royal family. The fact...
...trees to our minds." There, for an instant, we may see-and thus hope for-the England this Prince and Princess will one day rule. It will be far from the New Jerusalem. But still it may be close enough to catch a phantom glimpse of the greenwood. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Bonnie Angelo, with the London bureau