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BILLY put on a shinny leather jacket and stood shakily before me. He smiled, his voice was thick and fuzzy, his eyes blinked slowly at me. He began gasping--huhhhhnh-hhunnhuh-hun-huhnhuh!--but it stopped after a while. "Shit man," he croaked, "Another country altogether...
...this man, Wolfe? The jacket of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby his first book of collected essays, carries with it a photo of Wolfe-as-impudent-baby--faced-cherub, a photo which seems to affirm the purported image. Yet, it bears little relation to the man today. Wolfe's features are those of one much older, an adult, in fact. They are sharply delineated as if fine pencil lines have been added to what had previously existed only as a rather rough cartoon. His hands are pale, they melt into his white suit. If it were...
Darting about on her chrome-festooned motorcycle in her self-designed uniform-white crash helmet and boots, tight black pants and leather jacket-she might be taken for a Hell's Angel auxiliary. Up close, Esther Winders gives no such false impression. The badge on her breast, the pearl-handled pistol and the can of Chemical Mace that hang from her hips, clearly label Mrs. Winders what she is and always wanted to be: a lady...
Young Prince Dauntless, well acted by Pope Brock, is no traditional Charming himself. He's best likened to Judy Collins's "Hard Lovin' Loser"--"He's the kind of guy puts on a motorcycle jacket and he weighs about a hundred and five." But like the Loser, he comes through in the end to rebuff Mama's cocoa for the tomboy he loves...
...book jacket of Tonight at Noon announces Henri...