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...story of Sarah's pilgrimage unfolds through the missives she sends from the ashram: to her husband, daughter, mother, friend, psychiatrist, hairdresser and assorted others. With her nearest and dearest, Sarah fends off recriminations by going on the offense. She hectors her husband about his affairs with his nurses and the upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living...
...talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today, including the bride and groom." A corrosive reviewer, Parker once slated a hapless author as a "writer for the ages. For the ages of four to eight." She could be equally cruel to her nearest and dearest. When Alexander Woollcott, a fellow jouster at the Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare as a Woollcott first - edition?", Parker replied deadpan, "A second edition." Presumably it was the memory of such moments that prompted Woollcott to term...
...tradition of spurned loves, a visitor to the Quincy Qube bemoaned his fate. "Oh my dearest Betsy--if only you weren't seeing that dreadful Law School student, we could have the greatest life together. Oh woe is me, my lovely...
...fishing among the wreckage for Erwein's shooting trophies; he had many ivory tusks mounted in silver, as well as two stuffed orangoutans." The power of Vassiltchikov's observations lies in her restraint: "These last days innumerable inscriptions in chalk have appeared on the blackened walls of wrecked houses: 'Dearest Frau B., where are you? I have been looking for you everywhere. Come and stay with me' . . . or 'My little angel. Where are you? I worry greatly...
...opinion piece entitled "Mommie Dearest," Steven Lichtman followed almost all his fellow journalists and ignored one of the most basic questions raised by the issue of surrogate motherhood: Do Americans wants to be pioneers in a modern-day baby business? Slavery, I've always thought, was abolished over 100 years ago. Yet today, our society is contemplating--allowing, for the time being--the legalization of baby-buying...