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...Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina and other fiction that could be pirated for an album's worth of country-and-western, knows a thing or two about lonely nights and cheating hearts. She also has a grip on the elementary physics of gender: women are centripetal, the force that binds. Men are centrifugal; for all their good intentions, they feel best when whirling away from the center...
...Allison's deeply etched females are pulled both ways. Like Delia Byrd in Allison's Cavedweller (E.P. Dutton; 435 pages; $24.95), they can achieve escape velocity and attempt dangerous re-entries...
...times Allison's lyricism derails ("her hips rocked loosely on the pistons of her thighs"), and her supporting cast of friends and kin hangs on too long. But the central story of mother and daughter runs true, both on and beneath the surface...
...definitely implies a horizontal position." And in addition to the general perception of "making out" as a lesser act, there is a certain stigma connecting the expression to the late 1950s and drive-ins, or as Sam T. Mouton '01 angrily declares, "Making out is so Junior High." Allison C. Connolly '01 agrees that "it's very seventh grade--it was big time in seventh grade, like second base...
Someone forgot to tell Allison Feaster that basketball season was over. Although Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) ended its season two weeks ago with a loss to Final Four participant Arkansas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Feaster has continued to rack up perhaps the most notable individual honors of her illustrious career...