Word: incest
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...Incest, that most majestic of taboos, has had quite a literary run during the past few years. Nabokov's Ada, though not quite Pharaonic, elegantly proffered a half sister as better than none. Gore Vidal diddled the subject in Two Sisters, and if there was a moral to the convoluted enigmas of Anthony Burgess's MF, it was never commit incest without a conundrum...
Gloria Random does not need puzzles to approach the subject. The 17-year-old fugitive love child of James Leo (Midnight Cowboy) Herlihy's new novel finds that incest is purely and simply a bummer. Like her friends down at the crash pad, she handles problems with a jarring forthrightness...
...changes her name to Witch Gliz while on the ritual lam from Mom's suburban Detroit subdivision, learns by doing and then recording her doings in a breezy diary. Sex, dope, kindness, generosity and communal living are good things because they make her feel good. Fortunately, imminent incest gives off bad vibrations before the big clutch...
...campaign to reform abortion laws in the U.S. has made the justifications for abortion well known. There are the dramatic cases: pregnancies through rape or incest, the potentially deformed child, the mother whose mental health is seriously endangered. The Women's Liberation movement has made the confrontation total by declaring the absolute right of women over their own bodies. To them and to others, the right of abortion is simply the right to assert an order of values: their own lives and well-being over the lives of the unborn...
...credentials-a good physique-while lacking a strong or even passable voice for Ford's verse. Giovanni loves his sister Annabella, whose combination of wraithlike charm and physicality Lucinda Winslow succeeds very well in conveying. (Lucy Winslow, Loebgoers will remember, was superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm of incest causes not only the ruin of two families and the death of both sister and brother, but also a few assorted stabbings, poisonings and eye-gougings which Ford probably threw in for his sensation-seeking upper-class audiences-though, then again, seventeenth-century. Englishmen assumed Italians were that...