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...Katherine Anne" was born Gallic Russell Porter in a two-room log cabin in Indian Creek, Texas. Before she was two, her mother died. She was brought up in a desolate little town of 500 souls, a whistle-stop for cattle trains between San Antonio and Austin, by her ferocious, puritanical grandmother Catherine...
Updike took a two-room apartment in Boston in 1974. His writing during this period suggested considerable anguish. The two novels A Month of Sundays (1975) and Marry Me: A Romance (1976) were widely regarded as inferior Updike, self-indulgent and self-lacerating accounts of sex and guilt. Not everyone agrees with these judgments. (One of Updike's virtues is his prolificity; he has produced enough books to fuel arguments of all kinds.) Judith Jones, his editor at Knopf, thinks A Month of Sundays one of his best, precisely because it was written "during the darkest part of Updike...
...point in the book, for example, we meet his eager friends Li and Miao Wang over dinner in their "middle class" but spartan, two-room apartment. At another, we watch a tense encounter between Butterfield and authorities over failure to pay for a train ticket he did not want, it turns into a sort of "struggle session" from which he can escape only by paying for the ticket and apologizing for his "mistake...
Considering the summit's theme of world poverty and hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
Early one morning last week, a crew of painters arrived at Barn No. 48 on the backstretch of New York's Belmont Park. They started to work, patching cracks in the walls of the cramped two-room office next to the stables and applying a fresh coat of paint to the weathered picket fence. "Just regular maintenance," a workman explained. Then he added, "Of course, the big horse always gets regular maintenance just before the big race...