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...small comfort she does find in life comes from Ted and Becky Standish, hosts of the Christian network's "World of Love." The show is the satiric crux of the book, but most of the televangelism satire falls flat, and besides, it has been done before (and better) in other media...
Patrick and Jenny Standish have just moved into a modern apartment complex south of the Thames in London (faithful Amis readers will recall the courtship of these two as recorded 29 years ago in Take a Girl Like You). Patrick has stopped being a Latin teacher and now works as an editor at a publishing house. After nearly eight years of marriage, he is proving no match for the temptations of swinging London in the '60s. His difficulties with girls involve an inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm...
Episode Two: (November 1988, Winthrop's Standish courtyard, about 1 a.m.) While heading home after a long night of studying in Winthrop's house library, I am greeted on the sidewalk by what I initially think is a squirrel. A quick second look at a long, hairless tail convinces me that this rodent, now running for the bushes, is no innocuous squirrel, but a well...
...liveliest, most farcical point of the show comes when Andrew Watson and Caroline Bicks play Standish and Emily, a husband and wife who make a magnificent mountain out of a molehill. In a hilarious huff, Standish swears retribution for his brother's tarnished reputation--"Binky Byers made a remark to him in the steam bath...
...made for a nifty little string, with Ringwald fleshing out on screen the teen heroines he had scribbled on paper. Samantha Baker, Claire Standish and Andie Walsh are of different classes (sophomore, senior, senior) and different classes (middle, moneyed, working poor). But they share qualities that Hughes must have seen in Ringwald: a coiled poise, a resilient sense of humor about herself, an openness to emotions. Without forcing feelings, Molly can coax them effortlessly to the surface. Feel bad, Sam? Her face puffs, flushes and blotches; depression looks like an instant allergy. Feel good, Andie? Her face lights up like...