Word: mormons
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...first novel, is spare and direct, told in a series of quick sense impressions that spin out of each other like the grooves on a record. She seizes the phantom detail that makes a memory jump to life-the texture of a jacket fabric; a room in the Mormon temple; the last words, wrenching and absurd, spoken to her by her dying father: "I'm so hungry...
...woke up at the border of Utah, at the last gambling place before Mormon country. We stopped and I walked around and watched veterans play whole rolls of nickels at a time. Whenever they didn't hit I would play a few nickels on the same machine. I won about a dollar...
Utah's Founding Father Brigham Young had 27 wives, but his Mormon Church banned polygamy in 1890 by "revelation"-after losing several U.S. Supreme Court cases. Just last year Mormon President Spencer Kimball warned that "the Lord brought an end to this program many decades ago." That divine word has not reached everyone. There are some 35,000 heretical Mormons in the U.S. and Mexico who still practice polygamy...
Later the women will learn how to pound their fists on their husbands' chests in childlike rage. "Men love it," says the movement's founder and guru, Helen B. Andelin, 55. A devout Mormon, she developed her methods years ago when she felt her own marriage going sour. Now, after eight children and 32 years of marriage, her husband adores her, she reports, and even helps out at the Fascinating Womanhood Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Eleven thousand teachers have been trained to teach feminine arts and craftiness the Andelin way in schools and churches across the country...
...company is also branching out to sponsor workshops on dying for hospital personnel, the terminally ill and the general public. There may be more services to come. "Dying is spectacular," says Roberts. "I've even thought of making some kind of production out of it -like having the Mormon Tabernacle Choir come sing at your bedside, if you could afford...