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Meanwhile she lives in her new house in Malibu with her daughter, a young driver-helper, a maid, a fox terrier, a large mongrel and a deaf cat. She eats health foods ("Our whole society is built around the dining table," she complains over alfalfa sprouts and carrot juice) and spends a lot of time watching the tide-and her psyche. Starting with her breakthrough in B. & C. & T. & A., she recalls, "people kept saying, 'Wow! You're a star. You must really be happy,' and I kept asking myself, 'If it's so great...
Subtle Moments. What binds the second family to the Finzi-Continis, besides Jewishness and passivity, is their son Giorgio's infatuation with young Micol Finzi-Contini. He longs for her as a Fitzgerald hero might long for some always unattainable girl. Micol, who studies Emily Dickinson ("an old maid like me"), keeps Giorgio at a delicate distance, tantalizing him, finally turning him into a voyeur...
...there are many more determined female deserters. Nina, for example, was a 36 year-old Massachusetts wife with a maid, two cars, a country-club membership and a corporate-executive husband who drank too many martinis and made too many passes at other men's wives. Committing what Gold fader calls "social suicide," she fled to the West Coast and took on the identity of a friend. There she got a job in advertising and acquired a new Social Security number using her friend's name. Despite her elaborate precautions, she was located through her real birth date...
...matter, which conjures an intimate world of material satisfactions: the Third Republic interiors, with their mottled wallpaper and yellow light glowing thickly on well-stuffed chairs: the clutter of books, statuettes, lamps, dishes, forks; the poetry of possession. One of his portrait subjects is said to have told her maid to hide the cold cream, because "M. Vuillard never leaves anything out." She was, in a sense, wrong; Vuillard's eye for the telling shape was methodically acute. A domestic interior like Marthe Mellot: The Garden Gate (1910) seems the product of quite casual observation. Scrutinized, it becomes...
...society; Mr. and Mrs. Smith sit in their English sitting room after a meal of fish and chips, telling each other how great it is to be English. They are joined by Mr. and Mrs. Martin, and the Fire Chief, who comes looking for fires, but instead ravishes the Maid, and then leaves in search of his Ideal. The play ends in a very uncivil brawl, with the Martins and the Smiths shouting nonsense syllables at each other. Underlying it all is a supreme non-intelligence, the John Bullish buck-up-chaps mentality. The Maid expresses it well when...