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Buried within Gail Godwin's ninth novel, The Good Husband (Ballantine; 468 pages; $22.95), is a wry and potentially wicked marital and academic farce. Imagine two imperious egotists -- one, Magda Danvers, a scholar of "visionary" literature, and the other, Hugo Henry, a successful novelist -- cooped up together at a small, liberally endowed college in the Catskills. Give them both passive spouses. Magda has Francis, 12 years her junior, whom she calls "dummy" and other affectionate epithets. Hugo has Alice, who was once his editor and is now nurse to his formidable self-regard. Surely these worms will eventually turn...
...them at long last does, but comedy has nothing to do with it. Godwin, a best-selling and deservedly admired author, plays her story straight. She not only likes Magda and Hugo, she thinks they are every bit as profound and talented as they...
Immigration lawyer Magda Monteil-Davis, who arrived from Cuba in 1961 at the age of eight and lost a race for Congress two years ago, thinks that punishing poor Cubans and those who leave will not bring down Castro. She vents much of her anger at Clinton's crackdown on fellow exiles, who she charges are out of touch with the situation in Cuba. "Most of the Cubans in Miami came out during the 1960s. And the younger ones have never even been there. They sit here with their stomachs full, talking to each other on their portable phones. What...
...constitution the A.N.C. tries to ram through the constituent assembly. Wild cards in the electoral deck will be the 3 million colored, or mixed race, voters and the 1 million Asians. Although both groups suffered under apartheid, their conservative outlook is working in De Klerk's favor. Says Magda Bellwood, a Cape Town receptionist: "Better the devil you know than the devil...
...largely because of the publication of a new set of Kinsey Institute findings. Those had revealed nothing in particular in a very specific way: 37% of married men and 29% of married women have had at least one affair. Colletti also talked to some bewildered spouses and to counselor Magda Polenz, who gave a stunning vocal impression of Dr. Ruth Westheimer while dispensing hardhearted wisdom ("Some people just can't help themselves...