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These "facts" strike the reader as a bit incongruous; Walter Winchell for one, has a log in his eye, while the rewrite man may have only a sliver in his. Besides, spoofing Time is pretty old stuff, pretty cheap entertainment...
...Flood face to face with stately homes and Soho nightspots, London fogs and Mayfair mayhem. She finds herself at war with the whole English race. It is a form of infighting of which Elaine Dundy is plainly a well-scarred veteran. Before she is through, any true-blue U.S. reader is likely to feel that even a money-mad American would-be murderess is less lethal than the British upper classes who snub her in the drawing room and condescend to her in the boudoir...
...novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar. In their opulent detail, his scenes suggest those leisurely Victorian sagas in which the reader can hardly see the plot for the potted ferns. Beneath the surface clutter, however, a psychological novelist of power and perception is at work...
...author's second novel; and Moses and Coverley, now mature and married, appear from time to time, usually under increasingly desperate circumstances. But most of The Wapshot Scandal is about an affair between Melissa--a Wapshot only because she married Moses--and a grocery boy named Emile. The reader, like both characters, will probably find it a tiring relationship...
...every taste. Some of his stories fail to get off dead center. He does not point; he does not posture; he does not underscore. But as he pokes through the dusty closets of memory, Taylor conjures up ghosts that will continue to walk abroad in the reader's imagination long after the dust of indifference has settled on his flashier contemporaries...