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...been published in Letters from the Earth-only incidentally in the face of Russian taunts that the U.S. had suppressed Twain's antireligious writings. Letters adds little toward an understanding of the contempt Twain showed for religion in earlier writings, and is less likely to shock the modern reader than he imagined. But never before had Twain launched his attacks with such savage and scatological humor; Letters is a sort of last testament aimed at making the Old and the New look like nothing so much as cosmic comic books...
Boswell's matchless life of Dr. Johnson made rather small potatoes of their engaging tour together through the Hebrides. But the tour was unforgettable in many ways-and this eighth volume of Yale University's edition of Boswell's papers lets the reader count the ways. It pictures Johnson-the most ungainly of oldsters, the most nearsighted of onlookers, the most sedentary of talkers, the most fanatical of Londoners-perched atop tiny horses, half-drowned in pitching vessels, sleeping in chilly barns and clambering over rocks in remote Scottish islands. And by the side of this most...
...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
...sees that Heston took two inches off his waistline, he figures he can do it too. We tell the reader how to be attractive but not how to catch a mate or how to be sexy-we never use that word." By always being cheerful and never being sexy, the Churchill sisters pry glamour tips from Hollywood stars and pass them along in panting prose. ("The best-made plans of damsels and designers can swirl down the fashion drain if you aren't wearing the proper foundation under your basic dress.") They never miss a chance to add that...
...earth, they had no feet and so must fly steadily until the moment of their deaths. The birds-which, among other things, represent the hollow, doomed magnificence of British India-are the kind of florid symbol delighted in by artful writers but often ruinous to a novel; the reader is so taken with the symbolic whipped cream on top that he leaves the nourishing narrative jello beneath untasted. Skillfully, Author Scott mixes the two richly and inextricably together...