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Secure in their eastern Tennessee mill town and its surrounding valley, Emily and Sally Prince play childhood games with Raymond and Jed Tatro. They are joined by Donny Tatro, who is not related to the other boys, although their ancestors once owned his; Donny is black. High school and adolescence break the original ties that bound this group together. Donny is firmly segregated elsewhere, while Emily and Raymond turn out to be misfits and loners; she is gawky and plays basketball, while he collects stamps and mopes around in rayon shirts and reindeer sweater vests. Only Sally and Jed thrive...
With commendable speed and economy, Alther divides these five young people into the three who will leave home and the two who must stay. After much comic fumbling and steamy negotiating, Jed takes Sally's virginity. She responds like any well-brought-up Southern girl in the early '60s: "She clung to his hand, seeking from his fingertips assurance that he still respected her, would protect her reputation, would eventually marry her, and would love her forever. That didn't seem like too much to ask." When her pregnancy finally occurs, Sally and Jed marry and concoct...
Reports that Brady had died began spreading in midafternoon. The rumor circulated among law-enforcement agents and on Capitol Hill, where an aide to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker passed it on to reporters. CBS Correspondent Jed Duvall reported the story on the air, with Rather noting that it was not from official sources. Then, after being handed a note, the anchorman said that Brady had died and asked for a moment of silence. A.P. Reporter Maureen Santini asked White House Press Aide David Prosperi if he would find out whether the rumors were true - at just about the same...
...Christopher Reeve), who now owns the Talley place, is perched on crutches, having lost both legs in Viet Nam. Through the marvel of commercial casting, cinema's Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...
...steam vegetables, defrost meat, and wash dishes all at the same time in the dishwasher. You're already using the heat and the water, and you might as well take advantage of it." --JED CORMAN, U OF GEORGIA...