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...Step right up . . . if you dare!" reads the blurb on the garishly illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a slim volume entitled The Circus of Dr. Lao, is no tawdry sci-fi thriller. It is instead a blending of the sardonic style of Ambrose Bierce and the homespun hyperbole of Mark Twain...
...castration and severe mutilation, variously featured in such creations as James Dickey's Deliverance and David Osborn's more recent novel Open Season, a dreadful account of three top Detroit executives who each year put a man and a woman to death for sport. (Says the jacket blurb, a searing portrait "of America in the seventies...
...source of my morning's excitement was on page 50. Or rather, on the bottom of page 50--unprominently placed. It was a small item, right next to a "Let's Go Patriots" blurb sponsored by Old Smuggler Scotch...
Runner-up Climan, the pre-election favorite, was too overcome after receiving his award to make a speech. "Fraud," he managed to blurb...
...vision of a 27-year-old blonde who stands 5 ft. 8 in. and measures 38 in. around the bust doesn't pique my interest a bit. But I'll be damned if 1 know how Susan Snyder's measurable characteristics [Feb. 5], coupled with a blurb on her husband's occupation and plans for next year's Christmas cards, answer in any way the question, "Who was the blonde dancing with Richard Nixon...