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...Dell author who no longer qualifies for the award is Judy Blume, 44, godmother of upscale adolescent realism. Nineteen million of Blume's 14 teen tales are currently in paperback. She tackles social and sexual mores with sprightly straight talk. In one of her books, a group of twelve-year-old girls stare at the centerfold in a copy of Playboy, marveling at the model's breasts. Exclaims one flat-chested admirer: "Look at the size of her! They're huge...
...Blume's Deenie, the 13-year-old narrator faces disease and ignorance in Elizabeth, NJ. Suffering from scoliosis, Deenie must wear an ugly, uncomfortable back brace. The experience helps her overcome the primitive adolescent fear of being different. But Deenie represents up-to-date psychology as well. Could her curvature of the spine have been caused by occasional masturbation? Set straight by a briskly efficient gym teacher named Mrs. Rappoport, Deenie muses: "I never knew there was a name for what I do. I just thought it was my own special good feeling. Now I wonder...
...Blume explores both the spirit and the senses. In Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the twelve-year-old protagonist must choose her religion. Margaret's father is Jewish, her mother Episcopalian. The girl also fears that she will be the last of her clique to menstruate. Prays Margaret: "I'm going to be the only one who doesn't get it. I know it, God. Just like I'm the only one without a religion. Please. . . let me be like everyone else...
Mazursky's best films-Blume in Love and An Unmarried Woman-had a lock on the '70s sensibility. This, one could feel, was the way the American upper middle class attempted to face the new demands of sexual and racial equality. And this was the way a sympathetic comic artist, reporting from the inside of the analysand wonderland, could transform these demands and dreams into engaging movie narratives. But when Mazursky tries to Say It All about modern life, his voice can turn strident. His valued collaborators, the actors, can lose their charm and become stick figures, animated...
...pass Bill Walton (who shot 65.1 % in his three years at U.C.L.A.) as the most efficient college scorer ever. The entire team benefits from Miller's tightly controlled play: Oregon State's 57.5% field-goal clip this year is the highest in N.C.A.A. history. Says Guard Ray Blume:"Coach Miller's theory is that if you pass the ball once and get a man open at 15 ft., then pass it two more times and you'll have a man open at 6 ft. We make those two extra passes...