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...second largest illustrated weekly (circ. 1,600,000). Admen Günther-Jürgen Bahr and Claus Harden of Düsseldorf winced. Nudes are so common in German magazines that Fuji's ad would look like any other page in Stern. How to get the reader to look twice? Bahr and Harden's answer: a nude with a difference-"fat but nice." They assigned the job of finding a model to Hamburg Photographer Christian von Alvensleben. After weeks of searching, a friend introduced him to Gerd Tinglum, 20, a Norwegian art student who came to Germany...
...content with thrillers and bestsellers, which are often of doubtful moral, human and literary value," Pope Paul VI counseled some visitors during his working vacation at Castel Gandolfo. The summer reader should also avoid "those disgraceful magazines, which are now invading and infecting every place." Instead, concluded the Pope, "you should feed your spirit on clean and high thoughts...
...Tracy has made this comic territory so much her own that it no longer bears much resemblance to the Ireland on the map or in the daily headlines. Evening lacks the satiric bite of her earlier Irish novels, yet still provides diverting summer reading. But that creaking sound the reader notices may not be the hammock. It may be the plot...
...steady reader grows affectionately aware of Van der Valk's changing circumstances. His two sons grow up. He slowly mounts the bureaucratic ladder from simple detective to special commissaris. His wife, Arlette, keeps feuding over sweetbreads with her swinish butcher. In King of the Rainy Country, Van der Valk is shot and nearly killed by a hysterical woman. He is seduced just once, in Ireland, but is miserable until he confesses it to Arlette...
...DETECTIVE NOVEL which rises above the mundane to ensnare the attention of its reader and then holds a fascination through to the last, excruciatingly tense moment of resolution is an infrequent interloper among today's backlog of drugstore thrillers. But in Report to the Commissioner, James Mills has created just such an interloper: a story of deep suspense which moves on several planes of confrontation, ambition and human interaction. Slickly written, carefully strung together, Report to the Commissioner skirts the obvious and pivots on the unexpected; in the best tradition of detective stories, it leads the reader warily around blind...