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Presiding over all this is a columnist named Bailey, a highly sexed free spirit with a loud checkered sports jacket, a long green scarf and a chip on his shoulder as big as the state capitol. The plot can be described as what happens when this immovable object meets guards with billy clubs, gypsies with evil powers, women with irresistible charms and important men of crushing influence...
...trouble with Jane Somers' first novel, The Diary of a Good Neighbor, was not that it was poorly reviewed but that it was scarcely reviewed at all. The few critics who noticed the book liked it, but Somers, identified on the book jacket as the pseudonym of a "well-known English woman journalist," drew modest attention in Britain and the U.S. A sequel, If the Old Could . . ., published early this year, would probably have found its way to a remainder bin if the real author had not revealed herself last week. The literary world on both sides...
...from his or her reflected charisma. Reagan's hyper-publicized photo with God's Gift to the Sequin Industry was seen by more potential voters than the Republican National convention, and was a lot easier on the eyes. One would almost suspect that the blue and gold officer's jacket and aviator's glasses were a secret gift to the tax-free Nancy d. Reagan Wardrobe Fund, in order to promote militarism among the young...
...cereally, folks. Author Joseph Heller's fourth novel does indeed feature the biblical King David as its hero and narrator. And it offers a host of other familiar names and time-tested stories. God Knows even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills...
...this stage in his career, Steve Martin has a little problem too. In the '70s he was a stand-up-comic sensation. A dream of all-American vacuity with his careful coif, phosphorescent white jacket and conventionally handsome features, Martin came on like a silly Robert Redford, a would-be stud not quite as gorgeous or with it as he thought he was−but lots funnier. When Martin turned to feature films (with The Jerk in 1979), the challenge was to transfer the soul of this character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic...