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...their excesses of spare time, the islanders devised the Kula, a ceremonial maritime exchange of economically worthless objects- red shell necklaces and white shell bracelets. The Kula, in formal circuit around the islands, was the vacation and vocation of the people. They became their own quaintness, their own tourist trap. It is possible, in the end, that they even took American Express...
...their jobs and women in terms of their men-or lack of them. Celia was an adman's wife; insecurity was her way of life. Honey had nothing to do except tease. Anna, the strongest adult around, was considered eccentric because she believed that love was a trap. Little Mary Ann went home with sour choices ahead of her, and a headful of dissatisfactions that would not come clear until she herself was middleaged. The novel is a sketch of these hurts in their nascent state, and it is surprisingly forceful...
There are some bright nuggets here and there. William Daniels has a hilarious deadpan scene where, as G. Gordon Liddy, he outlines his outrageous schemes to trap '72 Democratic Convention delegates with call girls. As the President, Rip Torn does a gleefully vicious Nixon impersonation, whether he is re-enacting private Oval Office conversations (with bleeps in place of expletives) or declaring to the world that he is "not a crook...
Finishing the course with pars and bogies, Himmelman said the second shot on 18, the last hole of his Harvard career, was his best of the day. "It was right on the pin, but then it rolled back into the trap," he said...
Raffi went around the back nine in an even par 36 despite suffering from competitive butterflies. He bogeyed 15 but came back with a birdie two on the 186-yd, 16th. His five-iron flew over the yawning trap guarding the flagstick and landed as slftly as a sparrow. He sewed up his 77, known as a Red Grange on the pro tour, by hitting another five iron onto the back of the heart-shaped 18th green...