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Moaning garden snakes? Melted fillings? Cervantes and Milton! What is this nonsense? And just who is this Penelope Ashe, anyway? Until last week, she was a "demure Long Island housewife" seen stroking her Afghan hound on the book jacket of Naked Came the Stranger. Dutifully, à la Jacqueline Susann, she made the rounds of radio and TV interview shows saying things like "a writer's gotta impale his guts on the typewriter." C'mon Penelope, you gotta be putting...
McGrady's rewriting was interrupted by a reporting stint in Viet Nam, so at midpoint he turned the task over to another columnist, Harvey Aronson, who finished the manuscript last September. Fine, but who is the temptress on the book jacket? She's Billie Young, a Long Island housewife, mother of six, and not incidentally, McGrady's sister-in-law, who managed to sell the manuscript to Publisher Lyle Stuart with a straight face. Stuart learned of the hoax only after he had agreed to publish, and now gamely insists he was even more delighted than before...
...motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovacs turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural environment; the trail lies on the landscape, but is never...
...year former Democratic Senator William Benton was holding court on a huge sofa, playing the part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase. Buckminster Fuller, a chunky little figure in black tie and white jacket, bald head shining, talked to Dr. Thomas Lambo, a towering blue-black Nigerian psychiatrist in flowing tribal robes. The guests ranged from British Economist Austin Robinson and French Geographer Jean Gottmann to American urbanists like Robert Wood of M.I.T. and Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Buffalo. Mingling easily...
...Minister of Economic Planning and Development, was doing a little shopping downtown. He stepped into Chhani's Pharmacy to buy a bottle of lotion. As he emerged, an assassin opened fire, escaping in the ensuing confusion. Mboya was struck in the chest, blood soaking his suede jacket, and died in an ambulance on the way to Nairobi Hospital. Grieving Kenyans soon gathered in such numbers at the hospital that baton-wielding police were called out to keep the crowd...