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Worby brought many of her problems on herself. She raised eyebrows by sitting in the Governor's lap at a West Virginia football game; she was accused (perhaps unfairly) of kicking a state trooper during a helicopter trip and of cursing another when she missed a phone call. Speaking before a group of gifted high school students, she called Bob Dole "an idiot on every subject.'' At political appearances she looked-and was-unhappy, eager to get back to her musical activities and seemingly unconcerned that she was fast becoming a political liability...
...their sexual contact became known. In 1987, shortly before Susan's 16th birthday, sheriff's records show that Smith told her mother and a high school guidance counselor that her stepfather had fondled her breasts and put her hand on his genitals after she had crawled into his lap to go to sleep one evening. Linda Russell told the authorities that she confronted her husband, and he did not deny the accusations. For a short time, the family visited a therapist, and Bev agreed to move out of the house. But the abuse did not stop. In February 1988, Susan...
Along Mt. Auburn Street, the "Gold Coast" dorms catered to the lifestyles of the children of the rich and famous Claverly Hall, now annexed housing, and Randolph and Westmorely Halls, which later became part of Adams House, were the late-nineteenth century lap of luxury: spacious rooms, private baths, steam heat...
...Conroy's new novel Beach Music (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends...
...Conroy's mammoth new novel "jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving...