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...extension of the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment, Reagan opposes the ERA. Where Carter undoubtedly would appoint justices who will safeguard civil liberties, Reagan and the platform he runs on state that nominees for the Supreme Court would be screened for their opposition to abortion; we pale at the thought of five clever, conniving William Rehnquists making decisions that would affect us for decades to come...
...relish for the ironies of the situation. Somewhere in one of those classes, as Nabokov might have guessed, was at least one future novelist, Thomas Pynchon. Somewhere in his own imagination glimmered at least two future academic portraits, the title character of Pnin and the poet John Shade of Pale Fire...
...indomitable pair of Darlene Beckford and Kristen Linsley did their now familiar one-two shuffle routine, making the opposition pale in comparison. Beckford won the meet, setting a new course record at 17:09, with fleet-footed shadow Linsley right behind...
Ruddy-hued Stormy Loftus (Thomas A. Carlin) is a bustling contractor flush with building schemes. His wife Jan (Charlotte Moore) is an alabaster-pale monument to worthy causes. Stormy's best friend, Jess White (James Greene), sells wallpaper, but his wallet is bare thanks to six children, whom his wife Myra (Pauline Flanagan) counts as the blessed bounty of God. Ruggedly handsome Richard Halvey (David Canary), whose wife Trina (Swoosie Kurtz) dresses and acts half her age, has a gnawing lust in his loins for Jan Loftus...
DIED. Katherine Anne Porter, 90, author of gemlike novellas and short stories that dealt, in her words, with the human propensity for "self-betrayal and self-deception, in all its forms"; in Silver Spring, Md. With such lapidary works as Flowering Judas, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the Texas-born Porter reigned in the 1930s and '40s as the undisputed queen of the short story. But popular and financial success did not come until the publication in 1962 of her only full-length novel, Ship of Fools, which received mixed reviews but became...