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Trow's second essay does succeed in getting the reader to shake his head in bewilderment. Yes, it is embarrassing if the height of the social season occurs when Bianca Jagger rides through a Studio 54 party on a white horse led a naked man and woman. And it is ludicrous when geriatric fashion priestess Diana Vreeland comments, "The thing about Bianca is the patrician quality." Trow puts together a good piece of debunking journalism. One only wishes he had not confined it in the thinking of his first essay, and let the sillinessof his subjects speak more for itself...
...returns to his book--The Family and Alternate Lifestyles. "This must be a good place to come work during reading period," the stranger says. "Work?" says the reader. "I'm an engineering major. I just came down here to do some leisure reading...
Substituting dots, dashes and asterisks for profanity is a maddening hypocrisy. Consequently, "A Good Word for Bad Words" [Dec. 14] was a breath of fresh air. Today's sophisticated reader prefers cusswords to the coverup...
...zany and offbeat are also well represented on tape. British Comic Terry-Thomas is ideally cast as the reader of two "Jeeves" tales by P.G. Wodehouse (Caedmon; $12.95). Ariel, a new label, offers, among others, Humphrey Bogart as Hotspur in Henry IV on its two-volume Shakespeare in Hollywood set. And for those who cannot break the information habit, Books on Tape offers Newstrack, a bimonthly 90-minute talking magazine-garnered from the pages of TIME and other publications-for $195 per year...
...reader is plunged into a make belief, not a make-believe world. Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man was an early and largely forgotten guide. More studied than read, the book conjured up a group of impostors, gamblers, land agents and divines on an 1850s Mississippi riverboat. The only one to suffer loss of innocence on the trip was the reader, who had been exposed to a masquerade of identities and motivations. He was left with a befuddling sense of life as it is lived but rarely understood...