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...Cloak & Boudoir. After four months, Author Moore returned to the U.S., offered to submit what he claimed was a novel to the Pentagon for clearance, and was told-according to his version of the story-that "they don't read fiction." They should. For when Pentagon officials did get to read the book, they charged that Moore had not only distorted the role of the Special Forces but had also succeeded in conveying the impression that Green Berets is based solidly on fact. What is more, said Defense Department officials, the book contains 16 security violations. At their insistence...
There is something to be said (but not much) for any writer who can think up titles like Sexus, Plexus and Nexus. The names chime like a singing commercial piped by Priapean elves, all trying to jolly the reader into putting up once more with that old boudoir Bolshevik, Henry Miller, the Lenin of the dirty-word revolution...
Male Hunt is a French comedy that hangs precariously on the supposition that good plots come in threes. Its loosely interwoven stories are one part nimble New Wave lark, one part vintage boudoir farce, one part homogenized Hollywood...
Actually, through a delicate balance of finesse and commanding personality, many Frenchwomen are already freer than the laws would indicate. Madame de Pompadour, after all, ruled France from the boudoir of Louis XV, and fully three-quarters of all French blue-collar workers voluntarily (so to speak) turn over their weekly pay envelopes to maman, who passes back a few francs for Gauloises and wine. Economically, French housewives are growing increasingly independent. With the growth in popularity of household time-savers like the automatic washer and le sandwich, some 30% of all married women find the time and energy...
...Moreau, the "Jeanne d'Arc of the boudoir"? Why not the "aardvark of the bourgeois...