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...LORENA BOBBITT: In this month's Vanity Fair, the Virginia woman who severed her husband's penis is celebrated in a sexy, arty portrait by star photographer Mary Ellen Mark. Mrs. Bobbitt has said of her native Venezuela, "I have a patriotism . . . We do have McDonald's. We do have Pizza...
...ensure that their children have chances that they did not. On the table in the tidy living room of Patricia Mull's Los Angeles apartment is a World Book encyclopedia. The shiny volumes cost $1,200, an almost inconceivable amount carved out of her household budget. Her daughter Lorena is a junior high school honors graduate who wants to go to law school, and the encyclopedia, like the tuition for private schooling, was a high priority, a costly symbol of firm intent...
...soap. She ducks back into the kitchen and brings out a half-gallon jug of molasses. "This is for six months. You make pancakes with it. I buy everything big." Her monthly budget is tightly knotted around fixed costs: $400 goes for rent, not including gas and electric bills; Lorena's school, Immaculate Conception, is $80 a month; $15 goes to Mervyn's department store for clothes bought earlier; food takes $40 a week; Mull's bus pass is $42 a month. "I never go to the dances," she says. "I never go to the movies." An outing usually means...
...Lorena Curry, who has lived in Brownsville since 1935, said she plans to ride out the storm. "I've been through them before. I'm going to stick around at my home...
...urge to move comes as natural to McCrae and Call as the need to hang a thief. Yet they seem chained to an emotionally dead past. "The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom," said D.H. Lawrence. This includes Lorena, the local whore with the 14-karat ventricles, who joins the drive north because she has never lived any place cool. She also motivates much of the action when kidnaped by Blue Duck, an Indian whose specialty is killing settlers and selling their horses and children. Lonesome Dove has the highest mortality rate of any novel in recent...