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...Navy, Marty), her fourth husband, whom she married June 27 declaring "I've never been in love, really in love, before"; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty (she complained that Ernie refused to fire his 60-year-old maid, saying, "If you don't like my mode of living, you can lump it"); in Santa Monica...
...gallery was filled with art inexperts. "Buffet paints a variety of styles!" remarked one black tie, eying some Picassos hanging near by. But Peter Duchin's band was playing, the buffets were laden with filet mignon and champagne, and even the upper-case Buffet felt decidedly a la mode. Already 20 of his oils-which he simply dashed off-were sold at Dom Pérignon prices...
...Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon...
...mode is much more successful in the last, and best, story in the Metamorphoses series, when Cheever keeps only the mood of magical transformation. Goaded by the Surgeon General's report, Mr. Bradish gives up tobacco and his sanity. "Late in the party, a young woman wearing a light sack or tube-shaped dress, her long hair the color of Virginia tobacco, came in at the door. In his ardor to reach her, he knocked over a table and several glasses. It was, or had been up to that point, a decorous party, but the noise of broken glass...
...Faculty also dismissed one of the department's more prolific members, whose work includes 95 theses. The department had complained that nailing the theses to the instructor's office door did not constitute an acceptable mode of scholarly publication...