Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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read in a long time is Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape--her huge variety of social analysis and human interest detail the kinds of changes that need to take place in our society so that rape is no longer a omnipresent problem...
...good an idea as the next guy about what the general situation is down there. Take my brother-in-law, for example. When he was in the Navy he had a buddy who'd been down to Tahiti, and this guy could confirm the whole thing, detail for detail--the palm trees, the beaches, the governor-general, everything...
...Alphabet (Crowell; $6.95), Artist Mitsumasa Anno exhibits a gifted mind as well as hand. Twenty-six illustrations mount ingenious optical illusions in the shape of letters (see story head above-? 1974 by Fukuinkan-Sho-ten);on the opposite pages are objects beginning with those letters. With scrupulous detail Anno simultaneously dazzles, entertains and instructs in the best alphabet book of the year...
...There just aren't that many up-front roles for actresses these days," pouts Carol Kane, echoing Hollywood's longest running complaint. At 23, though, Kane seems to be doing all right. Cast as a winsome prostitute in The Last Detail, and as a bank robber's hostage in Dog Day Afternoon, she has finally found her proper niche in Hester Street, in which she stars as a Jewish immigrant to the U.S. in 1896. Says Kane: "I'm told I have the look of a different century...
...medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib 's own TV outlet...