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More publicized were Hughes' relationships in the 1930s and '40s with well-known stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino. Rogers, who claimed he proposed to her, dumped him when she caught him cheating with another woman. Gardner beaned him with a bronze statue at her home after he cuffed her around for seeing another...
...mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons him full of honey on cold nights...
...house of Isaac merely out of control; it is also under attack. The Lollipop Gang, a trio of teen-age terrorists, preys on Isaac's women, roughing up Ida and stalking Marilyn. A Lower East Side liberation front, the Lollipops wage a perverse holy war on Isaac's sway. The policeman's determination to keep his fief in order and the Lollipops' efforts to tear it apart are the core of this brilliantly conceived, tortuously crafted novel...
...metamorphosis from rebellious young woman, clamoring for education, to the more familiar image of Jewish grandmother, gloating over snapshots of her grandchildren, seems complete. But no, not quite-many of these women, free at last, go back to school. Anuta Sharrow was the oldest student at Chicago Musical College; Ida Richter began to write novels; Katya Govsky earned a certificate to teach adult education. For some, it seems to be too late. "I was always happy," concludes Mollie Linker. "But if I would have had an education, with my mind, if I had taken the time, I probably would turn...
...inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman to work in England since Van Dyck. The last modern painter to affect John's work was Paul Gauguin, whose flat, hieratic patterning was echoed in decorative figure compositions. John's favorite subjects remained the two main women in his life, Ida the wife and Dorelia the patient mistress, posing among their hordes of children in long columnar skirts and peasant shawls beside Romany caravans. But the 20th century was for John merely the unfortunate bracket of time in which he happened to live. He shared neither its energies nor its Angst...