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...Sounds), he sometimes would not come out of his Bel Air house for six months at a stretch. Among other things, he erected a tent that filled his living room (for top-secret Beach Boy pow-wows), and covered the floor of his dining room with a huge sandbox...
...SANDBOX by Anne Richardson Roiphe. 155 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Walter Mitty is alive and well in the appealing shape of a young matron on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She is Margaret Reynolds, the decidedly sane housewife-heroine of Up the Sandbox, a fresh, beguiling, bittersweet novel that looks into those three old hats: men, marriage, motherhood...
...harrowing trips to Viet Nam and nights interviewing Fidel Castro as America's star female reporter. By day she extols the virtues of the grocery list as pop art. By night she is an intern working miracles in a ghetto hospital. She is a loving spectator of the sandbox-and-sprinkler set but her mind's eye is on PROWL, a black revolutionary group where she is mistress to the leader. Playground palaver is easy to ignore when at dusk in the arms of your lover you will play a pivotal role in a plot to blow...
...like the first age. They chat a lot, but it is much like babies' babble, unfinished, noncom-municative. They tire easily and plop down like small children at the first available resting place. Mealtime is the pinnacle of the day. In between, they conduct a kind of innocuous sandbox flirtation, brief as a toddler's attention span, with two women inmates, Dandy Nichols and Mona Washbourne, one of whom has a reputation for wetting herself. At odd, unprovoked moments, each man cries over his condition and we, in the audience, cry over ours, which is a short definition...