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...very best, his voice sounds as if it were drifting over the walls of a tuberculosis sanitarium?but that's part of the charm. Sometimes he lapses into a scrawny Presleyan growl, and sometimes his voice simply sinks into silence beneath the pile-driver chords he plays on his guitar. But he has something unique to say, and he says it in songs of his own invention that are the best songs of their style since Woody Guthrie...
Many an earnest young writer launching a first novel is like a man trying to raft his belongings across a flooded river. The problem, clearly, is to get the essential items safely over. The temptation is to pile everything on. Paul Brodeur's story nearly founders under its symbolic freight. But the voyage into a world where inner disorder and outer chaos mirror each other makes an absorbing trip...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...
...lady marathoner, and now she has set her heart on the Sea of Galilee, Lake Geneva, Loch Ness, New Zealand's Cook Strait and, of course, the English Channel. Tall (5 ft. 91 in.) and lissome (137 Ibs.), Mary is a featherweight compared with most Channel swimmers, who pile on fat as protection against the chilly water. She spurns the traditional coating of axle grease, uses heavy-grade Vaseline instead: it is lighter, more water-repellent. And when she is in the water, her thoughts are miles away. "I concentrate on my family and other people who are fond...
...Lovelace Papers," the famous collection of family letters and documents, Elwin concludes that the real villain was more probably Annabella herself. A quiet, humorless, literal-minded girl, she took all of Byron's Gothic romancing with impenetrable solemnity. For a man like Byron, thinks Elwin, the temptation to pile extravagance on extravagance must have been almost irresistible once he found an audience that responded to his frequent, mysterious allusions to "atrocious crimes" and "abominable secrets" in his past. Annabella apparently believed that Byron had committed murder while traveling in the Mediterranean, and solemnly noted that during his brandy bouts...