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...with boomerangs. It's up to us to see they miss, no matter how." His personal style is unmistakable, reaching in places to the wonderful idiosyncrasy of J. D. Salinger's hero of The Catcher in the Rye. He has youth's uncertain arrogance ("Girls drool over me") and its superstitions (a jigger of beer drunk at 15-minute intervals will make you drunk) and its wisdom: "It's what you call things that matter to families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Way Home | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...historical curiosity throughout. Prominent in the milling cast of characters is a queen of Naples whose appetite for men is inextinguishable. Pretending to be interested in Italian political squabbles, Author Thayer really saves his most conspicuous talents for scenes that normally have their origin in lecherous fantasy. A drool trickles from the wiseguy, smoking-car prose, and each orgy is dropped with a reluctance that promises another bout in the next chapter. The promise is kept, to the point of bedroom boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neapolitan Peep Show | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...this naivete is Mike Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Freshman Review | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...house with a large living room with fireplace, two bedrooms, large kitchen, expansion attic and cellar garage.) Automobiles are "jim dandy," "slick as a whistle," "A-i," "just like new," "never a wreck," "peachy keen," and "loaded" (all the extras). The highest praise: "You'll simply drool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You'll Simply Drool | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Dixie is a happy music," says Bunny. "Swing makes you want to bounce, and guys that listen to bop drool at the mouth, get red-faced and excited. If we can get a combination of all three . . . we'll have something we'll call phuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phuff? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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