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...BABYHIP by Patricia Welles. 256 pages. Duffon...
...Babyhip is Sarah Green, who at 16 is no longer a teenybopper, not yet a hippie. She is in love with her looks, but her charm is all in her speech. Though she cringes when her middle-class Jewish family calls her mishugenah (crazy woman), she showers ludicrous language on parents, teachers, guidance counselors, lovers and lechers. The most feared experience she can anticipate is sex, for which she concocts a rather repulsive name: "making piggies." By book's end, she has made piggies defiantly from Detroit to Cambridge, Mass., and is looking forward to the Big Scene...
...divorced and 33, seems far removed from the hippie scene. Her leading character undoubtedly was an adolescent in the '50s who thought that the Tennessee Waltz was George and swooned over Johnnie Ray before the author updated her hangups to the '60s. Nothing mishugah about that: Babyhip has already earned $100,-000 in movie and paperback deals...
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