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It may be that this time Mrs. Spark herself has succumbed to the powers of her prose. Despite her sheer skill and concision-or perhaps because of them-the book is too schematic. It also seems a rather self-consciously "modern" novel. Though the author's descriptive grasp of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Whydunnit in Q-Sharp Major | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Safely out of the quad, she stops at a street corner to wait for the light. A car pulls up to the curb and a guy leans out and sneers, "Howdja like to do some modeling?" His face has the horribly lascivious look of Loerke, the demonic artist in Women...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Paranoia Walking the Streets | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

Suicide? Even in death Aimee kept the public guessing. That was her style-and perhaps her privilege. It should hardly be a biographer's privilege, but Thomas claims it. He chooses to see her as a showman; but she was also a shaman, one of the charged and chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sister Aimee | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

This is Terry Southern's first novel in eleven years, and the news is that he has given up hard-core scatology. Blue Movie has but a single passing reference to excrement, and only one physical freak. Instead, the author is content to employ his demonic imagination on an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Boxoroonie | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

How long till the next battle, when Earth goes against the demonic centipede men from the distant reaches of galactic space?

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Doctor, This is Madness.... You Will Destroy Us All | 8/4/1970 | See Source »

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