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...returned to the politics or, perhaps, anti-politics of poetry. Reading these latest poems, one starts to miss Atwood-the-novelist a little bit. The author's brilliance still lies in her prose, and the new book is not a landmark like Cat's Eye or The Robber Bride. Nevertheless, Morning in the Burned House is solid and thoughtful, an inventive re-working of familiar Atwood themes. It also accomplishes what has become increasingly difficult in an age of obscure poetry: In a spare, often stacatto language, Atwood themes. It also accomplishes what has become increasingly difficult...
What works best in this new version of Company, as Robert wanders among his married friends examining one marriage after another, is the tender moments. Veanne Cox is delightful as a bride balking at the church door. With wildly wobbling knees but a dizzyingly sure tongue, she rattles off an ever accelerating catalog of reasons why she shouldn't walk down the aisle. And Robert Westenberg, contemplating Robert's inquiry, "You ever sorry you got married?" offers a splendid version of that bittersweet hymn to ambivalence Sorry--Grateful. Westenberg vindicates the suspicion of those who (overlooking the cheesy arrangement...
MARRIED. TED DANSON, 47, onetime Cheers barkeep and former Whoopi Goldberg beau, and actress MARY STEENBURGEN, 42; at Danson's home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Celebrity attendees included Tom Hanks and the bride's old chums from Arkansas Bill and Hillary Clinton...
About 75 people, including international scholars and legal experts interested in the social problem of bride burning in India, are attending the conference, which ends today...
...very peculiar type of violence," said H. B. Thakur, who organized the conference and is chair of the International Society Against Dowry and Bride-Burning in India, based in Salem, Mass. "We are appealing to the whole world to stop this and other kinds of violence...