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Understandably, Pubis Angelical is a fun book to read. Its three distinct stories are often exciting, as the actress glides from life-threatening escapade to blissful romantic encounter, as W218 runs off to her forbidden lover. Unexpected twists to the plot keep the reader on his toes. And the vague relationships and incomplete developments of so much of the novel maintain an atmosphere of suspense. The reader cannot help but wonder how the characters are related, who is in love with whom, who is a spy, why the age of thirty is so significant, how the dead have come back...
...work of style rather than substance. Puig shows off both his technical ability and his imagination, but in the end does not do justice to them. The literary skill and creative freedom of an accomplished writer make Pubis Angelical a tolerable book to read. But on completion, it is not a satisfying book to think about; there is still the impression that something more could have been done, that something remained to be said...
While news teams from as far away as Sweden and the Soviet Union looked on, Judge Harvey Sorkow, 57, read his decision for three hours to a packed courtroom in Hackensack, N.J. Declaring the contract valid, he rejected arguments that it might violate public policy or laws against baby selling. A father cannot buy "what is already his," the judge said. He maintained that the surrogacy option was protected under constitutional privacy guarantees that include the right to procreate. In a crucial caveat, however, he said the contract was not automatically enforceable, because when conflicts arose the "best interests...
...crushing loss of innocence. The posthumously published diaries of Marie Vassiltchikov are an exception. The author's record of death and destruction is sustained by a strong instinct for the civilized life. This does not always mean oysters and champagne. Between her lines, it is easy to read sadness for the lost chivalry and ideals of Western culture. Being young and shielded by her status as a refugee from Bolshevism, she does not always understand the demoralizing power of barbarism. "Missie," as she is called by family and friends, is puzzled by the way "the royals" dissociate themselves from Germany...
Readers of London's Daily Mail were appalled last week to read that a goldfish nicknamed George had leaped out of his bowl and taken a bite out of 12-year- old Amanda Baker's hand. A photograph showed the shaken girl holding up her bandaged limb. The killer goldfish, the paper explained, was the result of an attempt to breed a male piranha with a female goldfish. The same day the , Guardian reported that the world's first photograph, some 200 years old, had been located in a Japanese cave...