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...flawed novel-sometimes portentous, sometimes over-directed by the author-it is also very fast and shrewd, one of the funniest books of the year. Much of the time, Didion seems to be laughing at her own romantic yearnings. Her heroine resembles a paper cutout Jackie Kennedy. Inez Christian Victor is the daughter of a rich, mercantile Hawaiian clan and the wife of a dashing Democratic Senator who wants to be President. In her daily life, Inez must contend with a randy husband, his groupies ("Girls like that come with the life") and standard-issue disaffected children (Jessie shoots heroin...
Romance lives for Inez in the person of Jack Lovett, a CIA freelance with unspecified trading interests in the Far East. They had a brief affair when she was 17, a "crazy little girl with island fever" who wore gardenias in her hair. For the next 20 years they met mostly in international airports, and the mutual obsession flourished. She scanned the departure lounges on her endless political trips and was sometimes rewarded. For her lover, an actual sighting was not necessary: "She had always been there in his peripheral vision, a fitful shadow, the image that came forward when...
...common trait: originality. Their art, generously displayed in American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century (Rizzoli; 342 pages; $45) shows astonishing visual power and aesthetic range. Eddie Arning, for example, who spent more than 60 years in a Texas mental institution, contributes eerie, compelling images that resemble Egyptian friezes. Inez Nathaniel Walker began drawing disquietingly grotesque portraits in prison. "There were all those bad girls talking dirty all the time," she recalls, "so I just sit down at a table and draw." All the artists' works are in museums or private collections...
...Louisiana delegation, Inez Fourcard, a black Carter delegate, told a reporter: "I'm for Carter, all right. But I've decided I'm against that rule. I don't want someone hanging over my head telling me what to do." A Carter whip overheard her remark. Suddenly, Chip Carter, the President's son, appeared at her seat and kindly offered to autograph her green Carter-Mondale poster. He wrote: "Thank you for your help on behalf of my father. With love, Chip Carter...
...Inez Donley...