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Wrong. John Updike, self-appointed myth-maker of the New York and Boston bedroom community, menacingly shakes a coffee cup and a lone sock at you and growls, "You don't have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...divorce, guilt over guilt. He focuses on the isolated nightmares with wrenching accuracy: the kid who phones his real father infront of Mother's new man because he instinctively knows it will hurt them and at the same time he knows they can't stop him Or the lone spouse who chain-smokes in "the blue light of midnight" while his unconscious wife snores contentedly beside him, unaware of his terrifying spiral into chaos...
Despite the fine performances expected from freshman Beckford and junior Johanna Forman, it will be tough to trust the Tiger's tail. Princeton boasts an 8-0 record in dual meets and will send seven harriers to the Nationals while Harvard's lone representative at that event will be Beckford, who qualified earlier this week with her eighth place finish in the Easterns...
...Vellucci, he could upset the council balance. But Vellucci has always thrived on hot fights--he won re-election two years ago shortly after the Boston Globe caught him holding down a no-show job. This year, unendorsed by either of the major slates, he is calling himself "The Lone Ranger." "Al loves it when everyone is after him--it just brings out the sympathy votes," one political observer explains...
...Crimson's Kelly Gately, St. Louis and Cecile Scoon all notched goals against the Tigers. Debbie Ching, who was totally frustrated by Harvard's Laura Mayer in the tournament final, scored the lone goal in Brown's second round match...