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...Gwen Rono, a partner at UNIHAB confirmed that the company had planned to buy the building to extend its condominium developments in the area...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Condos Replace Nightclub and Shops | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

...people in the title are all in their 60s and living in south Wales. The most prominent among them are Malcolm and Gwen Cellan-Davies, Charlie and Sophie Norris, and Peter and Muriel Thomas, each couple a tottering example of long-term marital pathology. Peter and Muriel have not touched each other in ten years; Charlie is a night-after-night drunk; Gwen is restive in the presence of her ineffectual husband. These people find their routines interrupted by the return of Alun and Rhiannon Weaver, friends from their youth who have decided to move back home. Alun has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: About Time THE OLD DEVILS | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision on the novel Touching. A California psychologist who ran nude therapy groups convinced a jury that he was the basis for an unflattering portrait in the book and won $75,000 in damages from Author Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, which turned around and sued the author to retrieve its losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Of Whom the Bell Told | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Julia Blum's Gwen, wife of Ken's childhood friend John, is an unlikely combination '60s burn-out/Valley Girl who giggles a lot. Ashford is cynical as Ken, but little else. The character of Jed remains to be written. His few lines merely supply the plants hanging from the Old Library's rafters with an occasional dose of carbon dioxide, which is essential to their well-being...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...Venus with overbite--and her older lover are found murdered. He is wearing shoes by Bally; hers are red leather Charles Jourdan. Anyone who thinks the cause of death is more important than who made the footgear has missed the point. With flashbacks, overheated sex scenes and brand names, Gwen Davis announces her arrival in the high-rent district of Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins: "A riveted audience at Elaine's, a heavy-breathing browsing crowd at Rizzoli's." Forget serious. The hollandaise sauce from La Cote Basque that Miranda pours over her lover, the custom-made sex apparatus that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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