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...time to begin the six-hour drive from Nairobi to Moses' enk'ang (small village) in the Loita Hills. The Land Cruiser travels for three hours over paved road to the dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...
...tangential sort. There are the elusive editors who dread authors as "walking vessels of petty grievance and conceit." An especially funny cameo is Allan Schieffman, the macho editor who boasts to Frances that "Norman Mailer had punched him in the stomach, an affectionate punch, and a tribute to his washboard midriff . . . Saul Bellow had bipped him on the arm to test his biceps. William Styron, who was balding, had tugged at Allan's thick brown hair...
...dispensed from the liquor wagon." All day he will ride through the country collecting chickens, rice and vegetables for a gumbo the womenfolk will cook back in town. The column will be halted frequently for beer and boiled eggs. A Cajun band on a wagon, relying heavily on fiddle, washboard, squeeze-box, guitar and triangle, will serenade him on the 15-mile ride. He will be accompanied by two "floats," unadorned flatbed trailers bearing 40 or so supportive drunks. Half a dozen adult men, charged with maintaining order, will remain sober. By noon the horses will be lathered, and many...
Music is everywhere. Cajun zydeco and cool blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...
That woman is Agnes Nixon, 55, the acknowleged doyenne of daytime drama, the wizard of such ongoing washboard weepers as One Life to Live, Search for Tomorrow, All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns and The Guiding Light, each of which she either created or once served as head writer. And now there is the freshly minted college town of Corinth, the setting for Loving, ABC's first new soap opera in eight years and Nixon's first new soap in 13. Loving, which airs daily at 11:30 a.m. E.D.T., is only five weeks...