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...skill over form. Few of the stories run four pages, and saddled with the first-person plural narrative gambit, Miss Ross has to tell her story fast and well. Details must be spared in the right places, interview conversations compressed into monologues, and revealing quotes made ironic rather than cute. It is, admittedly, a difficult genre, but Miss Ross has mastered it and added a dimension of her own. She says a great deal by telescoping events and people with minute details. Security Council delegates, for example, are surveyed characteristically by a running description of their ashtrays, water glasses...
...glad rags and sent a photographer over to Mrs. Ford's apartment to make a formal portrait. It was all quite formal indeed, until Mrs. Ford elegantly flopped her legs over the arm of a chair. "Stay that way," said the photographer. "It's sorta cute...
...year," declared a third. Yet for all the press raves and the excessive bravos of the studio audience, last week's Barbra was, at best, flip-side Streisand. The addition of color was Color Me Barbra's single improvement over the original. Otherwise the show was over-cute, overwrought and suffocatingly overproduced...
Maybe she's writing to be different. Maybe she's writing to be cute. My guess is that she's writing for the money...
...presume you don't claim originality for those guys and dolls, who do not even have a word for it. The Greeks had a word-orgy. So did the Romans-bacchanalia. Even the underdeveloped Brazilians have a cute word-suruba. In the '30s, I took part in similar divertissements with graduate students of Buenos Aires University; de rigueur attire for the young ladies was a lettuce leaf kept in place with a glob of whipped cream...