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...teenage prankster. There is no real mystery about Ray's source of cash either: he was a professional stickup man. It was his character, both erratic and highly methodical, that gave him the look of a man following directions. Pursuing Frank's arguments the reader comes to the conviction that there was no conspiracy...
Beatrice Lillie is now 73. What is she like, personally? Unfortunately, the reader does not really know after fin ishing her autobiography, which tells too little too long. Unfortunately, too, her humorous style - or is it her collab orators'? - is only fitfully amusing in print. Beatrice Lillie is undoubtedly the funniest woman alive. But those who have not seen her will have to take it On faith. · Gerald Clarke
...Reader resistance is also a factor...
...Desperate if not deep signs of change are becoming visible. Now in its 19th year, Playboy is maintaining its posture of dauntless virility while trying to be less of a male chauvinist pig about it. Recently "The Playboy Adviser"-Hefner's answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached in the gassy...
Literary Critic Mary Ellmann's book is concerned with mind and language. She shows with wit and logic that sexual analogies and feminine literary stereotypes-e.g., formlessness, passivity, piety, irrationality-are the misleading products of masculine delusion and illogic. A pleasure, whatever the reader's persuasion about Women...