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...leading ladies who glide through fabulous worlds of wealth, power, romance and high-style intrigue. Some of them, such as Fairchild and Dina Merrill in Hot Pursuit, are campy bitches modeled after Joan Collins' conniving Alexis Carrington Colby. Others, like Dynasty's Linda Evans and Dallas' Priscilla Presley, are equally fanciful angels of goodness and nobility. Still others, like this season's spate of high-living private eyes, are just girls who want to have fun. But all of them embody a new ethic of elegance, opulence and artifice unlike anything TV has yet seen...
SCANDAL, OR PRISCILLA'S KINDNESS by A.N. Wilson Viking; 233 pages...
That would be Priscilla Blore, helpmate of Cabinet Minister Derek Blore, the woman whose doubtful benevolent instincts are commemorated in the book's subtitle. "Kindness," in Author Wilson's mischievous sense, comes to mean an unnatural state of grace. Priscilla is one of those exasperating people who appear poised under all conditions. She can be part of someone's fantasy or grubby pursuit without misplacing a lustrous strand of her hair. Hughie Duncan, an irrevocable romantic and book editor, is allowed to worship her as an untouchable goddess. The physically and morally repugnant newspaperman Henry Feathers...
Love in this sprightly, misanthropic comedy assumes two basic guises: Priscilla's death grip on her family as a vehicle for social survival and Hughie's foolish infatuation. Mainly it is betrayal that makes Wilson's fictional world go round. Feathers deceives Mrs. Blore by exploiting her pillow talk in a sensational and highly profitable exposé of her husband. Derek Blore, the Right Honorable Member for Wheat-bridge East, got the ball rolling with furtive visits to a prostitute named Bernadette for his ritual whipping. Blore enjoyed fancying himself a naughty schoolboy, a harmless diversion were...
...creation of Priscilla Blum, 59, a freelance writer and pilot who had a mastectomy in 1969. She knew that cancer patients have to spend heavily on commercial flights to get the best treatment possible and that those expenses are rarely covered by medical insurance. Blum, who keeps a single-engine Comanche at the Westchester airport, also knew that many corporate jets have empty seats when they take off. Her idea was simply to put patients on the planes. To help make her plan work, Blum enlisted the aid of her friend Jay Weinberg, 66, a former cancer patient and owner...