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Roiphe criticized women who call any sexual encounter that doesn't include explicit consent rape because, she said, this attitude portrays women as constantly in need of protection.
Shoving off, they encounter a suspiciously charming fellow named Wade (Kevin Bacon) and his suspiciously charmless pal, Terry (John C. Reilly), also eager to shoot a few rapids. Wade is flirtatious with Gail, self-consciously chummy with Roarke.
Given the bloodshed predicted, Haiti proved to be a remarkable triumph last week. It is even possible that the deal may stick when the muscle behind it is withdrawn. So why does Bill Clinton's Haitian success have that insistent scent of failure about it? Was it only the stumbling...
The passivity of the character is barely credible, which is what Munro intends. The Gheg encounter, said to have occurred in the 1920s, is told to the narrator of a larger, more encompassing story by a woman whose reliability the reader is encouraged to suspect. Fact, fiction or a little...
All the stories have roots in rural Ontario, where Munro, the daughter of a mink rancher, grew up. The area seems as familiar as the American Midwest, a flat, unexciting setting where even the bizarre can be made to seem ordinary. A missing girl returns to tell about an encounter...