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...only hint we are given about why Alice might be holding on to both her bumbling fools comes from her interplay with her two women friends. Cynthia (Charlotte de Turckheim), whose job seems to amount to hosing down naked men in a Trouville hospital, marries a weather forecaster who has a nervous breakdown during the wedding ceremony and returns to his ex-wife shortly afterwards. Solange (Dominique Lavanant), a flautist in a not-ready-for-prime-time orchestra, always seems to be stuck in sad love triangles or with married men and constantly worries that she will...
Brookner re-creates the world of the immigrant high bourgeoisie with convincing selectivity. Its style and manners are indistinguishably British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch. This means presentation, panache, purpose and, in their train, dignity and responsibility; awesome concepts, borne permanently in mind." Alfred: "If he translates his predicament into fiction, if he views...
...Hint: No, it's not a slice of pizza...
From this week's trivia file: name the Cornell running back who set school records with 281 yards rushing and five rushing touchdowns in a 41-24 Cornell victory over Harvard in 1969. Hint: he went on to star on the Hill. Answer below...
TELL THAT TO the MDC. And while you're at it don't leave out any of the particulars. Mention the desert-like riverbanks. A picnic there is like an afternoon at the beach. Revere, that is. Maybe the MDC could take a hint from those fabulous gardeners at the Boston Common; the only grass one ever finds down at Riverbend is the illegal kind...