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These cerebral anxieties are counterbalanced by the physical turmoils of Laura, Agnes' younger sister, who has plunged into a passionate love affair with Bernard, a radio journalist eight years her junior. But after months of mutual bliss, Bernard abruptly becomes detached and preoccupied. Laura, growing frantic, assumes that she is being supplanted by another woman. Bernard is ashamed to tell her the real reason for his dwindling ardor: the appearance at his radio station of a stranger who gives him a diploma-like document, handsomely executed and lettered, that reads, "Bernard Bertrand is hereby declared a Complete Ass." This...
...permutations of Agnes and Paul and Laura and Bernard are complex and entertaining; they trace the pattern of a conventional novel, with causes leading to effects, including the violent death of one of the four. This story could be filmed, as was The Unbearable Lightness of Being, although much would have to be simplified and unscrambled. The distinguishing characteristic of Immortality, however, is its refusal to acknowledge any distinction between basic plot and the voluminous speculations that a given action seems capable of prompting. The book possesses a vertiginous sweep of perspectives from the intimate to the Olympian, along with...
...Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
...Lynn Rosenstrach (Yale) d. Amy deLone (HARVARD), 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; 2. Jamie Henikoff (H) d. Laura Flynn (Y), 6-1, 7-5; 3. Lee Denley (Y) d. Liza Parker (H), 6-3, 6-4; 4. Sam Ettus (H) d. Kari Weiner (Y), 6-2, 6-2; 5. Audrey Delaney (Y) d. Erika Elmuts (H), 6-2, 6-2; 6. Adrienne Amato (Y) d. Rachel Pollock...
Appearing on ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night, Gartner twice mentioned the victim's last name. ABC's policy is not to identify rape victims, said spokesperson Laura Wessner, but the network does not censor the views of those who appear on its live news shows...