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SEEKING DIVORCE. Willy Brandt, 65, former Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) and 1971 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; and Rut Hansen Brandt, 58; after 31 years of marriage, three sons; in Bonn...
...Times hit the streets for the first time in nine weeks--in the form of "Not The New York Times." Millions roared. Then The Crimson was rather poorly copied by some undersexed Black Angus cows from the north who are lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut, as my roomate says. Millions yawned...
This stroke is audacious and illuminating. What is a fairy-tale line doing in a story filled with accidents and misfortunes? It is alerting everyone to the presence of magic that was there all along, dogging the hero but also yanking him out of the rut of predictability. Cheever does not often introduce direct trappings of the supernatural; The Enormous Radio and The Swimmer violate physical laws, and a woman in The Music Teacher acts suspiciously like a real witch. But an aura of wonder bathes even those stories most absorbed in everyday details...
...such as dinner for the boss or a pre-football-game lunch. "We hope to interest people in good cooking," says Child. "We want them to say, 'If she can do it, I can.' " The show should also help Child cook her way out of a Gallic rut. Says she: "I've been in the French straitjacket for a long time...
...fact, all those night riders across the neon terrain not only summon familiar memories, but have misled some reviewers into thinking that Springsteen has driven himself right off Thunder Road and into a rut. "But," he says, "everything has its limitations and its ultimate possibilities, and you got to test them to find out what they are. It's like those Italian westerns at the drive-in. I always loved it that they showed 'em all at once. That's the way I make these albums?so they get played all at once...