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After several chapters of pseudo-sophisticated dialogue and self-flagellating self-analysis, the inevitable happens: while jogging in Central Park, Oliver finally meets a girl who seems to break through the veil of rudeness he uses to fend off the world. But if you cried when Ali McGraw angelically faded out in the film version of Love Story, fear not. Marcie, heiress-apparent to the former all-Ivy wing, is no match for Jennifer Cavilleri. She is, however, outrageously rich, mysterious, athletic and beautiful. Oliver's first comment about her is that she has a "fantastic ass." Obviously, Oliver...
...starting at 7:30 pm at the nonprofit, collective Common Grounds Coffee House. Teleport or take the Red Line to Central Square, find the 100 Flowers Book Store at 15 Pearl St., walk inside, and you're there. Music on Fridays and Sundays only; this week it's Dean McGraw with folk and blues from 8:30 to 11:00 pm on Friday, and "open music"--something like open book, I understand, but no molecular models or calculators allowed--on Sunday from 3:00 pm to closing. Call 661-1640 to figure this...
Cheshire long ago hung up her white gloves and now attends parties only reluctantly. She does most of her reporting over the phone-often from the 18th century bed in the seven-bedroom house she shares with her four children and Herb, now deputy bureau chief for McGraw-Hill. Most daylight hours, however, she can be found on the phone in her cluttered Post office where, except for a full-length sable coat occasionally flung over her shoulders ("I'm not eccentric, I'm cold."), she looks like any other harried, cynical cityside reporter...
MYTHS by Alexander Eliot. 320 pages. McGraw-Hill. $39.95. This dizzying book hurls the reader around the world and across the centuries in pursuit of the common roots of mankind's myths. Here is Himbui the Hummingbird, the fire bringer of Peru's Jivaro Indians, cheek by jowl with Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell...
HERALDRY by Ottfried Neubecker. 288pages. McGraw-Hill. $39.95. The author confirms a suspicion probably held by most people: to understand even a tiny blot on the elaborate escutcheon of heraldry, one must be a herald. The author, director of the German General Roll of Arms, explains the code of identification that was already fiendishly complex in the 12th century. It is no use. Even introductory definitions flutter toward mystification ("Fountain. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure"). Fortunately, the book's 1,700 illustrations fill this simple information gap with a tournament of griffins rampant and bends sinister. They...