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Piano lessons are compulsory. Sex education is an accelerated course in child abuse: a newly arrived immigrant cousin spends himself on Kate's leg; an avuncular friend of her family's gropes her at the movies, and a barber's free hand wanders under the sheet. Years later, Mamma tells her daughter that she had 13 abortions. It was not a neighborhood record...
...Kennedy's also influenced the electorate, creating "charismatic expectations" which each president must now try to fulfill. Our whole notion of the presidency has been altered by the Kennedy myth, leading writers (such as James David Barber) to incorporate Kennedy's own power-hunger as a standard for measuring succeeding presidents, Kennedy, Wills argues, triggered a glorification of the powers of the presidency...
Senator Bob Packwood complained that Reagan has a different shortcoming: when confronted with a serious budget proposal, the President tends to respond with a non sequitur."Didn't they know," chortled Congressman Barber Conable of New York, "that successful leaders often must fill awkward moments with digressions...
...company is trying to launch the Grandson of Hoop. At New York City's annual toy fair last month, Miss U.S.A., Kim Seelbrede, was on display whirling the 1982 model, known as the Peppermint Hula Hoop, because it bears barber-pole stripes and is peppermint scented. In coming weeks the hoop will be featured in an episode of the television comedy-adventure The Dukes of Hazzard, and paraded in Daytona Beach, Fla., at an olympiad of hoop-based sporting events during the spring break for college students...
Love has its own secrets, but the "water" sub-plot of this forked work has a complexity too. In fact, it gives Cheever an ideal playground for assembling one of his patented concatenations of weird events. A down and out barber shoots his dog in full sight of his neighbors, two women wrestle in a supermarket, a baby is mistakenly abandoned. Also, Cheever cannot was quite to eloquent nor so humorous about the country side as he can about sex. But he succeeds in constructing his labyrinth of characters and circumstances more significantly and puts forth a well-crafted threnody...