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...married singer Paul Simon. They had been friends for seven years, but the stormy marriage lasted only 11 months. Or so. Winds of the tempest that was their love affair blow through both her novels and through Paul's passionately painful songs like Hearts and Bones and Crazy Love Part II. The names have been changed, but the feelings haven't. "We are built more for public than private," says a Postcards character...
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE by Sidney Blumenthal (HarperCollins; $22.95); ROAD SHOW by Roger Simon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $19.95); SEE HOW THEY RUN by Paul Taylor (Knopf; $22.95). Three observers of the '88 presidential campaign agree that Republicans win the big ones because they manipulate voters' emotions and juggle images better than Democrats...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Kenneth Collura, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...
LADY BOSS, by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband...
SURRENDER THE PINK, by Carrie Fisher (Simon & Schuster; 286 pages; $18.95), is the sort of novel writers write between novels, about the sort of love affair a young woman might have between affairs. It has the odd quality of being funny and well written, despite an occasional outbreak of coupling adverbs ("passionately, tenderly"). But it is utterly unmemorable. The author can't seem to care much about her heroine, a pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets...