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Hello, Dolly!, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, has eye appeal, ear appeal, love appeal and laugh appeal, but its most insinuative charm is its nostalgic appeal. When Dolly Levi (Carol Channing), widow and matchmaker, fondles a cash register after announcing that she plans to marry its owner, she carries the mind back to a time when women needed and cherished men for their money, and in a day when wives sometimes earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived...
...NORTH GATE by Joyce Carol Oates. 253 pages. Vanguard...
Altogether brisker, and written with a far more expert journalistic surface, are the stories of Joyce Carol Oates, a 25-year-old Detroit University teacher from upstate New York. Her 14 tales belong to the old, lively tradition of American regionalism and the word-of-mouth folklore of any village. There is a good sense of place and dialect. Perhaps she lacks a touch of the Dawkins magic, but together, the well-worked art of these two women serves as a reminder that if and when the short story dies, it will be a heavy loss...
EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Carol Rossen portrays a prostitute found unfit to care for her child in a repeat of this series' best episode...
...your scripts?" He makes equivocation sound like grandeur: "I'm a man of great decision who can go either way." Except toward his twelve-year-old daughter, his cynicism is total, like love or war. Life and people are all frauds, he tells the nubile new secretary (Carol Rossen) who falls half in love with him, and in a world of phonies the way to win is to be the biggest, slickest phony of them...