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...playwrights however, have managed to successfully capture the Southern experience the way Beth Henley does in Crimes of the Heart. If Henley imitates her predecessors thematically in presenting southerners "as they are," she adds a refreshing dimension to the genre...
Like most romantics, Browne has had to deal with charges of corniness and self-indulgence before. So have the best of his peers (Warren Zevon, Don Henley, Jack Tempchin). And like them too, Browne has been able to confound categorization by constantly challenging it. He grew up in Los Angeles and then a little farther south in Orange County, second child of teachers. His father was also something of a jokester (the name Jackson was partly inspired by a gag in a Crosby-Hope-Lamour Road excursion) and a reasonably hot Dixieland jazz player. Orange County, most renowned...
...victory gave the Crimson eight a free trip to the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in London, but half of the boat, along with Coach Harry Parker, opted to stay home and train for the national team. The others rowed as a four at Henley, falling in the semifinals of their event...
...freshman heavyweight crew, coached by Ted Washburn, grabbed the only American victory at Henley. The Yardlings was the Lafles. Plate Challenge Cup with a two-and a-half length triumph over Oxford's Isis Beat Club on July...
...Judith Rossner (Looking for Mr. Goodbar) returns to a favorite theme: the frantic search for emotional connection. The New York City landscape of August is littered with suicides, failed marriages, estranged children and an assortment of ambivalent sexual identities. The one successful relationship is built between two women: Dawn Henley, 18 at the outset, an orphaned college student, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her fortyish psychoanalyst. In classic Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive...