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Actually, the author's first New York City apartment in the 1950s was a walk-down: the "back half of a basement" with one room and a toilet down the hall. There this shy, Catholic girl from a small town in Rhode Island would sit "cross-legged on my studio couch, Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the phonograph" and feel "joy exploding in my chest. Because from this house I emerge every morning into the place my father promised would be mine one day. The place where there'd be lots of people like...
More fleshed out is the man she married and, after two children, divorced--a New York literary agent identified only as "B." Coming from a family of Jewish left-wing intellectuals, he was the perfect Lochinvar to take her out of Rhode Island but not to replace her sainted father. On one hand: "If it hadn't been for him, I thought, I would not have heard Montand sing Les Feuilles Mortes or read Mrs. Dalloway or tasted Brie or drunk any wine beyond sherry." On the other: "Lose one's temper or burst into tears, and he would...
...game, Tim Reed, a Bulldog defensive back and native Rhode Islander, made a game saving tackle on the two-yard line as time expired. Ironically, Reed was recruited by the Bears but passed on the Brown in favor of New Haven. Ouch...
...TIME writer and senior editor, she was nominated this year for a National Magazine Award), TFK is no mom-and-son operation. Its staff of nine includes alumnae of Weekly Reader, Kid City Magazine, TIME and the TIME Education Program, as well as prodigies from Middlebury College and the Rhode Island School of Design. It will also tap TIME's network of writers and correspondents for stories of interest to the skateboard...
...Democrats' dim chances to recapture the Senate next year faded even more when Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, 76, one of the chamber's most liberal members, said he would retire at the end of his current term. He becomes the seventh Demo crat to announce he will step down, a number that now endangers the Democrats' ability even to retain enough seats to sustain a filibuster...