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...Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner spin on its fireplace rotisserie and gets caught up a tree. Suddenly, like a sunburst in the middle of a daydream, Monsieur's daughter Irène (Sabine Azema) motors in, abustle with gaiety and impish reproaches. She takes her papa to a country inn for a chat and one lingering waltz before nightfall; then, as abruptly as she came, Irène drives off to patch up a lovers' quarrel. Dinner, farewells, and a last reflection for Monsieur on his role as parent and painter...
...sweetest surprise of Home Before Dark is how much of John Cheever's magical voice has been inherited in Susan Cheever. At the end of the book, the daughter evokes the her melancholy after John Cheever's death in 1982--the tone is vintage Papa...
...loved him in the Old Testament. Well, here he is again, ladies and germs: the guy who put the kibosh on Goliath; the main squeeze of the lovely and talented Bathsheba; the papa of Solomon, an extremely influential person in his own right; and, last but not least, a close personal friend of the Man Upstairs. A King of Israel once, a prince of comedy now. Let's hear a really warm welcome for (buh-duh-dump-dump) David...
...violence coincides with efforts by President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 32, to respond to U.S. pressure to liberalize a regime that still vividly recalls the repression fostered under the rule of his late father, Francis ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In recent weeks Duvalier has sent letters to police and military officials, demanding that they respect due process of law and stop using torture. Ironically, the liberalization seems to have emboldened rather than placated the populace. At week's end Duvalier announced that five ministers had been fired in a major Cabinet reshuffle...
...Rona Shapiro '84, $1500, for her senior thesis entitled "'Papa, I Have a Voice Now'; Mothers, Fathers and the Path Toward Authorship in the Works of Jewish Women Writers in America, 1910-1940"--Dr. Judith Kates, Tutor...