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Things get a bit sticky when Walton agrees to let his daughter Elvira marry a royalist, Lord Arturo Talbot. They get even more awkward when, on the wedding day, Arturo spirits Enrichetta away from the Puritan fortress to safety. Elvira does not understand that, and goes sweetly and pathetically mad, while Arturo is sentenced in absentia to death...
...example, in Josiah Haws's 1855 daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes, how this medium's clarity and almost harshness fits the character of the subject. But in a calotype of a blind man done ten years earlier by W.H. Fox Talbot, the tone of the photograph is very different. The calotype image has a soft, fuzzy, dreamy quality--a gentleness that interacts with the figure of the old, blind preacher playing his harp. In every photograph on exhibit--from a mystical photogravure protrait of Yeats to a study of shadows in gum-biochromate by Edward Steichen--the artist/photographer has deliberately...
...Peter Talbot made a nice catch in right field in the first inning and a great charging stab of the ball by shortstop Steve Long in late innings saved the no-hitter for Nilson. The Crimson, meanwhile, had little trouble getting hits off the hapless Tufts pitching staff...
Miss Frame's persistent themes are loneliness, madness and death. But again, as in dreams, distinctions dissolve and the themes can be interchangeable. In Daughter Buffalo, billed as her first novel with an American setting, even the characters seem to blur into each other. Talbot Edelman, M.D., is a self-acclaimed student of death whose inquiries include mutilating experiments on his dog Sally. A lyric-writing old gent named Turnlung is also an expert-a virtual memory bank of death and that other equable state, prenatal life. Both Talbot, the death scientist, and Turnlung, the death artist, develop...
...previous novels like Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room and, more recently, Intensive Care, the author examines conventional attitudes toward death with both satire and wistful poetry. Talbot's parents, for example, respond to mortality by rushing an elderly relative into a nursing home with a sigh of relief that Miss Frame compares with "the faint whirr made by the garbage disposal unit when it comes to rest after doing its work." Yet her central symbol for this evasive herdlike response to death is a six-month-old buffalo in the Central Park Zoo that is "already trained...