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...grumps that his new life "has not been very exciting," he concedes that he has "grown up a lot. I can take care of my son just like his mother could. Now I love my son twice as much." Such good feelings, Rosenthal says, are shared by many sole-custody fathers. One told her: "I actually made dinner for my kid, instead of taking him to McDonald's, and he really liked...
...then decide." Of course, such an arrangement can succeed only if the parents are able to work out details harmoniously, a hedge that can be tough for a warring couple to jump. If nothing else, an amicable joint-custody agreement usually costs less than a full-scale battle for sole custody; few lawyers blinked at the moment in Kramer when Dustin Hoffman was told that his legal bill would be at least...
Stroessner's regime has its reasons for singling out Filartiga as a politically dangerous figure. As the sole physician to almost 40,000 peasants in the poorest country of the continent, Filartiga had attained the unofficial status of folk hero and rural leader. If anyone can mobilize revolt, he is in the most strategic position to do so. Though Filartiga does not aspire to organize politically subversive activity, his art publicizes the repercussions of Stroessner's reign on an international scale which seriously threatens the dictatorship's security...
About halfway through the seven-year liaison, Robert and Emma go to Venice for a vacation, and it becomes obliquely clear that Robert knows about the affair. Perhaps he knew all along. Who knew what, when, constitutes the sole suspense factor of the evening. A confirmed philanderer, Robert is not about to incite a showdown. But it goes rather deeper than that, into the realm of male bonding. Jerry does not really feel remorse about betraying his unseen wife, but he feels terribly guilty about betraying his best friend. Similarly, Robert complains that they never play squash any more...
...sound rising up into the mountains that jostled imperceptibly around them. They sang to obscure this awful scale of time; they sang to obscure their fear; they sang in defiance; they sang to be worthy of love; they sang until they could sing no more." The town's sole motel is called the Ho-Hum. It is a term that will never be applied to this memorable first novel...