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...even if Teng was on the comeback trail-Hua's control of the government might be less secure than Sinologists had believed. Teng was not only the archenemy of Chiang Ch'ing's radicals, who last year organized a massive press campaign against this "capitalist reader," he was also a serious potential rival to Hua, who had denounced the tough, abrasive little bureaucrat for his "counterrevolutionary line...
...Democrats to run for the Senate; he declined. With his wife Winifred, a Ph.D. who teaches psychology at Detroit's Wayne State University, he lives in a small town house in a downtown Detroit urban-renewal area. He has two children from a previous marriage, is an inveterate reader and intermittent balletgoer...
...paper led with a review that proclaimed, "Not going to see King Kong is like passing up a chance to see one of the wonders of the world." The main story was about a defensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles who had been knifed to death. Only the diligent reader would have discovered that Jimmy Carter had just nominated three Cabinet members, including Griffin Bell as Attorney General...
...numbers of respectable women would become avid customers if only they did not have to admit that what they were purchasing was porn. So R.R. perfected the soft-edge sex scene in which, just as the worst is about to happen, all the heavy breathing seems to steam the reader's glasses and the details fade discreetly into daydreams...
...even a reader who cannot identify with the author's rude stereotypes is likely to feel the urgent excitement of these books. Author Rogers possesses theatrical flair and truly grand vulgarity. Her books are built, like action movies, from a rapid series of short, vivid scenes. Readers who do keep reading have no time to pause and reflect on the preposterousness of what is happening. Seized by the throat, the poor geese are force-fed events events events as the action mounts to a terrific climax in which lust sprouts little pink wings and Beauty fetters Beast with...