Word: justina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems likely that any movie will mirror merely the realism. Cheever has been long acknowledged as a master of the short story, of which he has written over a hundred. Some are merely slick or O. Henryish, but some, such as The Country Husband, The Death of Justina, Goodbye, My Brother, are as perfect as a short story can get, and have dimensions and echoes far beyond their relatively small compass...
...alongside such seasoned British stars as Wimbledon Champion Angela Mortimer, Runner-up Christine Truman, and French Champion Ann Haydon. What made the upset all the more upsetting was the 18-year-old who engineered it: a rangy (5 ft. 6 ½in., 125 Ibs.) brunette from St. Louis named Justina Bricka...
With only six years of competitive tennis behind her, Justina outplayed 29-year-old Wimbledon Champion Mortimer 10-8, 4-6. 6-3. in the match that clinched U.S. victory. Only child of non-tennis-playing parents, soft-hitting Justina ranked only eleventh among U.S. women, and was noted primarily for her unspectacular retrieving game. But last week, her accurate placements kicking up puffs of chalk along the baseline. Lefthander Bricka ran Angela Mortimer so hard that the British player suffered leg cramps and had to withdraw from the final doubles match. To sew up the crucial third set-which...
...Death of Justina is a more explicit try at sketching a corner of hell in suburban U.S. His wife's elderly cousin dies in the narrator's house, but the town is so carefully zoned that in his neighborhood there are no undertakers and none are permitted to come from outside to pick her up. The only solution, his doctor tells him, is to take her across the zoning line in his car. But Justina's death is merely the incident that fires the smoldering discontent of a man whose daily stint is to commute...