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...raped by her father, an Albany pediatrician. She befriends fellow Loner Stephen Herndon, who is hiding the shame and rejection of his own physician-father's alcoholism. By midstory Charlotte is on the sauce, Stephen is involved in a homosexual affair with a football star named Rolf, and both tumble into bed with another couple after a bourbon and pot party. At novel's end, Stephen is near catatonia, and Charlotte is institutionalized. One can hardly wait for Just Hold...
...wealth and station is a model of contemporary political and moral confusion. The evidence surrounds him. Capitalists eat caviar from Russia and smoke cigars from Cuba; socialists spend an evening playing Monopoly, and the village priest sleeps with his housekeeper. Closer to home, Tolm's son Rolf is a former radical who now grows vegetables and lives with Katharina, mother of their son Holger, who is named after a dead German terrorist...
...away. Rolf has another son named Holger by former wife Veronica, a radical who is raising the boy in the Middle East and/or Turkey where she lives underground with a lover, whose wardrobe includes an exploding vest. Herbert, Fritz Tolm's other son, also belongs to an "alternate society." A married daughter, Sabine, is not politically inclined, though she has taken a compromising position with Hendler, her security guard, and is expecting his child. By fast count the novel contains over 70 other characters engaged in various plays, stances, conspiracies and love affairs both hetero-and homosexual...
...five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...
...Oregon senator, who has promised to filibuster the proposal to death when it reaches the Senate floor, will introduce an amendment asking for women to be registered along with men, Rick Rolf, an aide to Hatfield, said last night...