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...Navy's Leo Williams will also be defending his high jump title tomorrow. Williams' leap of 7 ft. 3/4 in. is a current Heptagonal record, and the sophomore has already topped 7 ft. 4 in. this winter. Gus Udo, now back to full strength after a leg injury will be Harvard's answer to Williams...
Part III, the concluding section of the novel, finds Felicitas, her mother, baby Linda, Father Cyprian and his faithful band living near one another in western New York. Prodigal daughter and priest now talk about home improvements, not theology. For physical comfort, Felicitas has Leo, a kind, oxlike hardware store owner to whom she proposes marriage while killing bats. Here is Gordon's prose at its finely detailed, rhythmic best: "There were 16 bats, trying to lift themselves off the ground, trying, failing, bringing their wings together in desperation, raising themselves an inch, two inches, then falling. They moved...
...desperate, the extreme. A fatherless girl thinks all things possible and nothing safe. I don't want that for Linda. I had Cyprian, but he fathered me as if we were both bodiless, for our connection had nothing in it of the flesh. But I will sleep with Leo, Linda will know that. And Leo will -know that Linda is an ordinary child, a child of flesh and bone...
...paintings and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in New York, Robert Rosenblum, professor of modern European art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Jean Sutherland Boggs, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Theodore Reff, professor of art history at Columbia University, and Leo Steinberg, professor of art at the University of Pennsylvania, will each discuss his original research on Picasso...
Neil Simon likes old times-the screwball comedy of the 1930s, to be precise-enough to revive the tradition, or at least prop up the corpse. In Seems Like Old Times (S.L.O.T. for short), he has updated Leo McCarey's delicious romantic farce The Awful Truth, this time with Chevy Chase in the Cary Grant role, Goldie Hawn as Irene Dunne and Charles Grodin as Ralph Bellamy. If the new cast spells magic to you, rush to S.L.O.T. You'll see Chevy stumble down an entire hillside and get his nose bobbed by a series of vengeful swinging...