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...fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most influential, and most lucrative, arbiter of fashion. In 1913 Nast launched Vanity Fair, a witty, literary monthly. He hired a succession of bright young women editors (Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Lawrenson, Millicent Fenwick, Marya Marines) and gave them carte blanche...
...Jersey, Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick defeated Jeffrey Bell, and will be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams after his Abscam conviction. Bell, 38, a onetime Reagan speechwriter who defeated four-term Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 primary only to lose the general election to Bill Bradley, spent nearly three times as much as Fenwick ($2 million, vs. $700,000) and accused her of being too liberal. Fenwick, 72, a pipe-smoking four-termer who has never lost an election, is an old-line Republican whose TV ads insisted that she "stands...
...cosmos revolves around them, other characters occasionally appear in person or memory. There is Fenwick's twin brother Manfred, a more sinister CIA agent, recently drowned under suspicious circumstances. Manfred's son (by Susan's mother) is either in a Chilean prison or dead. Susan's twin sister Miriam pops up when the story needs her; she is still scarred from being raped by a motorcycle gang and tortured by the Shah's secret police in Iran. She and her current lover, a Vietnamese refugee, have an infant son named Edgar Allan...
...long, terrible war is reduced to a lame pun; death, rape and torture become narrative incidents, useful for advancing the plot. Meanwhile, Susan and Fenwick congratulate themselves on how well they are living and writing their novel. "My hat is off to us," Susan says. "Well done, us." She leads cheers for her husband's sensitivity: "That's some intuition you had there on that rampart." Fenwick returns the compliment: "What a teacher you are, Suse. No wonder your students fall in love with...
...material, however unpleasant, not weep over or try to correct it. Fine. But those who feel claustrophobic in the presence of smug, self-deluded solipsism may also decide to skip the whole experience. Barth has often been a pleasant guide through the states of his mind; Susan and Fenwick, his alter egos...