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...superman. Three successive interludes of sensuality within a few hours." Such experiences may be related to the spunky claim in Kassorla's book that 100 orgasms within two hours are "not uncommon" among women she treats in sex therapy. Perhaps because of Margolis' selection, the transcripts depict Kassorla as the uncertain, dependent partner, learning from Margolis. "Your smiling, nonjudgmental attitude helped me," Kassorla says at one point. Margolis replies as flatly as any real sexologist: "I think what comes out of this is the value of vocalizing feelings as opposed to silence, which creates an interpretative feeling which...
...floors to coal mines. In Birmingham, Ala., the Robinson-Humphrey Co. brokerage firm rented a hotel ballroom to tell people of the virtues of IRAs. Western Federal Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles calls its retirement plans "fat-cat accounts" and promotes them with posters, balloons and badges that depict a smirking feline figure even plumper than Garfield...
Baker's anecdotes and almanac-ish tips depict a world less evil than crazy and people afflicted less by self-interest than by tunnel vision. But even his most pointed observations are, at bottom, funny. When he satirizes network news in an anecdote showing how television "covered" the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden Eden, it is with the lightest of touches. Baker's ability to portray the less palatable sides of American life while keeping readers chuckling at his insights has made him America's funniest social critic; it also makes the Almanac splendid reading...
...does not pretend to. Rather than follow a character's progress and transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas, alone and aging, in the apartment she shared with Stein. Mushroom Pie in the Rue Christine is less about Toklas and her devoted entourage than it is about Brinnin searching, like his characters, for a vehicle for recognition...
...tapes depict Hinckley as a persistent and pathetic suitor. As he tells Foster in the first call, by way of introduction: "This is the person that's been leaving notes in your mail box for two days." At one point during the conversations, Foster's freshmen roommates giggled in the background. "They're laughing at you," she said to Hinckley, and to the girls in an aside: "I should tell him I am sitting here with a knife." Hinckley heard the remark. "Well," he assured her, "I'm not dangerous, I promise you that...