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...pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse of Clea's development: "She burned to take this lad to bed and teach him what she'd learned in a lifetime of licentiousness. Yet Dack was in love with a woman his own age. Who was a lesbian and would give him nothing but grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One To Miss | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...fuck the degree. Only you can decide; remember, as we used to say in the navy, there is no barbed wire round the place keeping you in (or is there)? The barbed wire of indecision? Mix in different company if present company is giving you the shits, but John lad, no environment is perfect... Oct 3 1988 [cont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters from a Friend | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...gilded young aristocrat at Oxford and the Jewish lad from London's East End would never have intersected. "But it was our great good luck," Antonia says, "that by the time we met, we were both recognized." Opposites, fully formed, attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LADY ANTONIA FRASER: Not Quite Your Usual Historian | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...LEFT FOOT. Christy Brown was a poor lad who battled cerebral palsy to become a painter and author. Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular: to play Christy with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor -- and without a drop of TV-movie treacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled for the one who would have him, and went on to a diplomatic career that eclipses the golden clan's luster in every mind but the one that counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bowing Out with a Flourish | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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