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...eatery is also in a cage, its chairs bound in plastic wrap, its table umbrellas strewn with fake $100 bills, and its dust-covered tables laden with plastic grapes as well as real Perrier bottles...
...pass for a teenager, but that makes sense. The young Peggy Sue is "not herself"; she is older and on the way to being wiser. It is appropriate too that Cage, 22, seems younger, jerkier than his girlfriend, because, being a guy, he is. With his dinky voice and fake teeth, professing ardor in a gold lame jacket or smacking the dumbness out of his forehead, Charlie can endear or exasperate. Cage's brave turn teeters toward caricature, then tiptoes back toward sympathy...
Later, back in Massachusetts, she bought beer with her fake I.D., which says she's 27 years old. The cashier had asked that time...
...black robes, acting out a patriotic defense of the homeland, or just doing those low Cossack kicks, the dancers rarely lost my normally dance-defying attention. The only inexplicable piece was an overlong sequence in which the dancers pretended they were skating on a Russian ice rink, even executing fake spins. Very impressive. The Ice Capades must not have reached Moscow...
Lowell and Wilson began arguing about Robert Frost, whom Wilson called a "dreadful old fake." So Lowell immediately telephoned Frost to invite him to the dinner too. "He told Mrs. Frost over the phone that I was a great admirer of Frost's." When the venerable poet arrived at the increasingly disastrous dinner, Lowell kept moving him from chair to chair, allegedly because Frost had a bad ear but effectively making "sustained conversation impossible...