Word: lived
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Piercy's novel fails to live up to its promising beginning. Her three main characters prove to be run-of-the-mill rather than unique. The married couple is Willie--a sculptor happy in his bigamous lifestyle, who refuses to wear anything fancier than jeans and a fishing sweater--and Susan, a fabric designer who lusts after the fashionable New York lifestyle of Tyrone, their wealthy neighbor across the pond...
...seem meant to embrace the unconventionality of these characters, each of whom is sexually involved with Dinah, their composer/musician neighbor, a veteran of countless love affairs with both men and women. The three live together in happy harmony, which Piercy illustrates with her description of how they traditionally spend Christmas...
...former soloist who is now co-artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, went to Leningrad to teach the works to the Kirov. Russell, who prepared Theme, had the harder assignment because the choreography is difficult for even Balanchine dancers. Both women learned that the no-nonsense rules they live by do not apply at the Kirov. By American standards, classes were poky. Dancers might rehearse one day and never be seen again. The principals arrived with their personal coaches, rather like gymnasts in competition, and saw no reason not to slow down the music or change the steps...
...abortion-rights advocates say, she has yet to meet a burden she considers to be undue. Among those that have passed O'Connor's standard: requiring abortions to be performed in hospitals, which makes them more costly and time consuming; imposing waiting periods that force women who may live far away from a clinic to make return trips; mandatory testing to determine viability...
Howe brought a blunt and unwelcome message: "There is simply no way a British government could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming...