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LEE AND ELAINE By Ann Rower. 247 pp. New York: Serpent's Tail. Paper, $14. THE long shadow of New York's postwar bohemian years still haunts American writers and artists -- […]

A few years ago, my mother rented a small cottage in the marais area of the Vendee, on the Atlantic coast of France, south of Brittany, where she had spent […]

JUST when you are finally convinced that the French Riviera has been hopelessly spoiled and polluted by the invading crowds, just when you are about to give up and find […]

TWO miles off the Atlantic coast of France, facing La Rochelle, lies the Ile de Re. It's an island of whitewashed fishermen's villages, fine sand beaches, wild hollyhocks, salt marshes […]

BETWEEN the towns of Dragui gnan and Grasse in the Haut-Var, the upper region of the Var Department, runs a string of small fortified villages perched like fortresses atop the […]

ELLEN STEWART, THE DIRECTOR and founder of La Mama Experimental Theater Club, climbs the stairs leading to the apartment she keeps on the top floor of the La Mama building […]

LEAD: Paula Abdul is the hottest material girl of the moment. Her video 'It's Just the Way That You Love Me' gives a perfect double message. The poor, uneducated beauty […]

The article discusses the author's visit to the childhood home of her lover.

Refers to articles on pages 12 and 13 (A stormy port, peaceful today; On Ile de Re, a luminous seascape), concerning a visit to La Rochelle on France's Atlantic coast and to the facing island, Ile de Re. How to whet your appetite for a sunny, salty island; Things to see and do; Getting there; Getting around; Places to stay and eat; Costs; Contact points.