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Casey at no time tells the reader what to think, but the obvious honesty of his account and its deceptive simplicity make his points more deftly and forcefully than...
Charles Gaines' first novel is one of those rascally, agreeable rarities whose wobbles the reader is willing to indulge all night. Stay Hungry reports with much energy and mild astonishment the adventures of a moneyed Southern loafer, Craig Blake, who falls among body builders. Blake, who is 30 or so, owns half of a real estate agency in Birmingham but cannot be bothered with...
...WEEKS AGO Newsweek's letters section carried a complaint from a reader claiming that the reviewer's disclosure of the plot of Frenzy had completely spoiled the picture. However, a good movie can't be destroyed by the revelation of its plot. If this were so it would be impossible to see the film again with the same satisfaction, whereas good movies--both Frenzy and The Other--improve on a second viewing...
Though the narrative is occasionally crude, Author Durham has one important veteran's trait. The reader senses at once that he is in sure hands and trusts her. One feels that, like Margaret Mitchell, she knows absolutely everything about her main character and could tell as many tales as Scheherazade about her. Producer-Director Eleanor Perry, who has bought the book for the movies, has proclaimed it "the first Women's Lib western"-just what the movement needs. The remark is understandable because Catherine is ultimately stronger and less rigid than...
...housewife, decided to write a novel, her first order of business was to figure out what kind would least display her ignorance. She had no degree, had never held a decent job, traveled, flown in an airplane, or so much as taken a vacation. But she was a magpie reader especially of fiction and history and she knew her way around a library. To wit: the setting of Cat Dancing comes from an old WPA guide to Wyoming. Its frontier details are lifted from children's books and such relics as Bannerman's mail-order catalogue of Civil...