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...church members had planned their trip to Boston to include picketing at an event where television actor Ellen DeGeneres's mother was speaking and a trip to Provincetown, Mass. When they learned of Gore's visit, they added it to the agenda...
...that the independent funeral-home operators targeted by Mitford's first book suddenly find themselves to be death-care heroes. Rising prices have begun to erode the industry's historic immunity from bargain hunting. Consider Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Loewen controls all but three funeral homes from Hyannis to Provincetown. (It offered to buy two of those three as well, but their owners declined.) The Massachusetts attorney general became concerned enough about Loewen's near monopoly to require the company to divest itself of three homes, a move of questionable value given that Loewen had already shut one down...
...introduces the young Jackie in a scene in which she is showing his stepsister how to douche after sex. He depicts Jackie as a tough and consummately selfish woman who loves two things, money and publicity--the former more than the latter. On a night out with Vidal in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the 1960s, she appears sly and humorous, a girl who wants to kick up her heels. At one point she begs Vidal to tell her how she can become an actress. Jackie was unconcerned about her husband's infidelities, says Vidal (he refers to J.F.K. as "the President...
...wanted to get an artist from Provincetown to do the job," Will said, "But the trip was too big for him and it didn't work out. So we got a local artisan to do it. It took him two weeks, and it would have taken the artist a year. Kind of makes you wonder about the meaning of art, doesn...
...shorter New Yorker articles, one on the Portuguese-American fishermen of Provincetown, Mass., and the other, the title piece, on an environmentalist who patrols the Hudson River, are well sketched, though they might usefully have been longer. This is solid work in a traditional landscape, and the reader resolves to watch for more...