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Moses Wine is a sometime Berkeley activist and law school dropout, now beginning a new life and career as a Los Angeles private detective. He drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior...
...first Swedish language film in decades), is a concert pianist, acclaimed and prosperous, sailing grandly into late middle age. Eva, the daughter (Liv Ullmann in granny glasses, with a few lines of graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife of a country pastor, a woman soft, sweet and intelligent. They have not met in seven years, and it is evident that something other than the mother's illustrious career has kept them apart. Recently, however, the mother's life has been disrupted by the death of an old lover...
...Cheever character endures more shocks than the hero of The Country Husband, perhaps the best story he has ever written. Things begin going wrong for Francis Weed when he survives a plane crash and goes home to find that neither his wife nor his children seem interested. In short order, Francis recognizes the maid at a neighbor's party as the same woman he had seen, years before, being shaved and stripped at a Normandy crossroads for collaborating with the Nazis. Rattled, Francis falls in love with the teen-age babysitter. Seeking psychiatric help, he is detained by police...
...John Cheever fled the country when one of his books was due for publication. Now he is staying put, cheerfully weathering the appearance of The Stories of John Cheever in the old house in Ossining, N.Y., an hour's commute north of Manhattan, where he moved with his wife Mary, two sons and daughter some 18 years ago. "I don't get much pleasure from reading my own work," says Cheever, stubbing out a cigarette and lighting another. "I'd like to rewrite all the novels." Going over his short stories, though, turned into a happier experience...
...wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working on a Navy effort to enrich uranium. Pug's wife Rhoda, pining at home in Washington, starts her own chain reaction with an Army colonel...