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...Russian noble family managed by Ivanyushkin's grandfather, famous for its Thoroughbred racing horses. Seventy years of Soviet control laid waste to the estate, and his grandsons are determined to restore it, even though they still can only rent the land. "We'll turn this place into a high-class modern facility," vows Ivanyushkin. "Soon it will be our property for keeps...
...sexes, notable chiefly because all the condo-owning, Z-car-driving protagonists are black. True, these four good- looking, thirtyish women friends and the men who do them wrong, wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch, a home truth for gender warriors of all colors, is that buppies are just as baffled by their disconnected lives...
Unfortunately, Melville does not always maintain this high level of credibility. For example, Donella Saunders, from the same story, is hollow and superficial. A Guyanese woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...
...about. I'm a good dad -- when I'm at home. But when I'm away, my motel-room walls aren't lined with pictures of my family. Maybe something is wrong with me, but I separate things in order to keep exploring who I am. It's a high-class set of problems that cut into my creativity and my family life. I don't want to stop what I'm doing, and I don't want to lose what I have...
Bordes burst into celebrity two weeks ago when a News of the World reporter posing as a businessman claimed he paid the luscious, high-living 27-year-old the equivalent of $850 to strip naked and spend the night. Rather than fulfill his part of the transaction, the newshound raced out to file his expose, under the headline (pounds)500 AND I'M VERY DISCREET. Some tabloids drooled over Bordes as a high-class call girl (the tonier papers left it at "socialite") and hunted down her many eminent admirers, including Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil (quickly dubbed "Randy Andy...