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The Cox report dominated newspapers across the Pacific Wednesday as they assessed the deteriorating state of U.S.-Chinese relations.
One reason for this is that Madonna's pregnancy during shooting required her Dior finery to mask her thickening midsection, whereas photos of Evita in the clothes show that her slimness and tiny waist--maintained both by will and by deteriorating health--were a strong focus of her visual appeal.
Alternatively, you could regard some of those strange doings as the addled fantasies of the aging suburban hero, whose journal of a year, filled with rants against his wife and pornographic musings and notations about his deteriorating health, constitutes the novel.
And it becomes poignantly clear that Updike's hero is beginning to die, not just because his physical self is deteriorating, but because he has a soul, which is shrinking.
Meanwhile, according to the LAT , the tactical situation is likewise deteriorating.