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...40th birthday, her husband told her to pack three days worth of clothes and be ready to go at 3 p.m. Then he whisked her away from their suburban Maryland home to New York City, where they lived when they first met. He had already arranged childcare, asked his wife's boss to give her a couple days off and hatched a plan with her sister, whom his wife hadn't seen in over a year...
...life.) It allowed him to prep for the stage characters he would create, since, as he told Gussow, "I always played the sinister parts." In 1956 he married Merchant, an actress whose acute rendition of spiky hauteur made her the perfect interpreter of such Pinter women as the "wife" in The Homecoming. In 1980 he would leave her for the novelist-historian Lady Antonia Fraser. Within three years Merchant had drunk herself to death...
Pinter's plays perplexed not because they withheld information but because what was onstage didn't always scan logically. In The Homecoming, for instance: the philosophy professor - at least that's what he says he is - returns to his boyhood home, bringing a woman he describes as his wife of nine years. Yet his two brothers, their father and an uncle seem surprised at the news. Has the professor been out of touch for so long he hasn't told them he's married? Is she his wife, or perhaps a woman he's engaged to as a test...
...Nobel year, 2005, when he was wracked with infirmities, he could still distinguish politics from life. "When my wife Antonia is pouring my cranberry juice in the morning," he said, "I don't regard that as a political act. Nor am I thinking politically at the time, though I do have the Guardian to my left hand and the cranberry juice to my right. But Antonia's act of passing the cranberry juice to me is an act of married love. I should say that, without her, I couldn't have coped over the last few years...
...long cars drive down to the checkpoint and are turned away, usually with a passenger holding a camera inside. "Everybody is excited about him being that close," says Shinn, "There are a lot of people walking by, people we've never seen in the neighborhood before. My wife called to say he came back from a workout and 'he waved at me.' A hand wave from the President to be. It was exciting...