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...avid player of charades and spinner of tales, young "Peter" (as he was called by everyone in the family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that...
...since 1963 for his professional appearances as Dr. John-has been a first-class musician, a cabin-class superstar and a keyboard boogie man, keeping the tradition of his native city alive and treating it proud. He is also a garrulous archivist of local musical lore and a dexterous spinner of tales. In his sunny town house in Manhattan's Chelsea district, the Doctor, 40, is the man to consult on matters of great musical history and moment...
Born in the Maine fac tory town of Lewiston in 1877, he was the youngest of nine children of a poor English-born cotton spinner. His mother died when he was eight, and the family dispersed. His father remarried and moved to Cleveland, where Marsden eventually joined him. "I had a childhood vast with terror and surprise," he wrote later. Shy and insecure, he began to paint. He received a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, where he so impressed one trustee that she offered him a five-year stipend to study in New York. He took classes...
...supervision of foreign policy. He knew his strengths as a manager and as a patient negotiator. He had enough self-confidence not to be bothered by the inevitable unflattering comparisons with his stellar predecessor, Henry Kissinger. Vance did not even try to compete with Kissinger as a spinner of grand designs or as a globe-trotting diplomatic superstar...
...prepared for the unexpected. Literary aestheticians can ponder the author's ideas on replica and originals. Structural purists may find her infusions of poetry unwiedly and unnecessary. Frame herself simply calls the book an entertainment. It is that and more, for she proves to be not only spinner of bizarre and hunting fantasy but a sharp social observer as well. Her descriptions of New Zealand suburbanization, of California as public confessional booth, of television and religious fakers convey a reality as urgent as Alice Thumb's creativeschizophrenia. -R.Z. Sheppard...