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...which handles a variety of personal problems, the Eating Problems Outreach Group (EPO) started to fill a specific need. The group, which deals with "food issues intertwined with other aspects of life," according to staffer Marsha Rorty '85, showed a film in December called "I Don't Have to Hide," a story about a bulimic woman. In April it brought the theater group "Food Fright" to Harvard for a "humorous but very moving account of eating disorders," says Rorty, and sponsored a five hour workshop on eating concerns...
MacLaine is a personality of intense contradictions. She is annoyed at being called a workaholic, which by any ordinary measure she is. She bristles at having been known for years as "kooky," although she made no effort to hide her defiance of convention. She says that she welcomes aging, but likes to be photographed from above, because she considers it "prettier." She is a shrewd businesswoman, with a net worth, according to a close associate, of more than $15 million, but professes to know virtually nothing of her finances, not even whether she has a percentage of the profits from...
Tyrone is a failed actor with a tragedian's soul and a Broadway tinhorn's compulsion for self-abasement in bad booze and worse sex. Josie, the daughter of his Connecticut tenant farmer, has adopted the manner of a slut in order to hide her Madonna's heart. Their tragedy is that their one night of (sexless) love comes too late. From it they achieve not redemption but a brief, bittersweet memory; not" I enough, one suspects, to light their separate darkening paths into the future...
...That award merely confirmed what thousands of readers had decided years earlier: Bellow's fiction offers a look at life that is not only essential but is unique among his contemporaries. Bellow has been the most rigorous naysayer to nihilism of his era. He has never tried to hide the gloomy truths about modern life or gloss over all the sound reasons (starting or ending with Auschwitz) for a thinking person to despair. His most memorable characters (Herzog, Mr. Sammler, Henderson the Rain King) can list in sometimes comic detail all the symptoms of the decline of the West...
Haviaras lived out the remainder of the war in relative safety with his grandmother in Athens, "where it was easy to hide in the anonymous slums...