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...DELL CROSSWORD DICTIONARY...
MILKBOTTLE H by Gil Orlovitz. 534 pages. Dell...
Milkbottle H, rejected by the major U.S. publishers before appearing in England, is being promoted by Dell as a classic ahead of its time. In fact, the opposite would seem to be true. Orlovitz's "experimental" novel, like most, could have been conceived whole the day after Ulysses was published in 1922. The conclusion is unavoidable: nothing, including Jewish family memoirs, seems quite so old-fashioned these days as a really determined avant-garde novel...
...BLACK PEARL, by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin; $3.25). The author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins has turned out another excellent novel; this one captures all the mysteries and dangers of pearl diving off the Baja California coast. For good measure, it adds a real live sea monster...
...weapon--mimic ability--carried the show. On top of which, the CIA as usual was technically flawless. The set it put together, even forgetting the incredibly short notice it had for last night's performance, was remarkable. So were the uniformly clever and colorful costumes. This being a commedia dell'arte with updated themes and references, it required character masks, and these were wonderfully expressive...