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...disagree violently with some of my choices," writes Burgess in his introduction to 99 Novels, "I shall be pleased." Of course. Why put together such a list unless it is idiosyncratic and provocative? His selections, each defended in a brisk essay of a page or so, include such eyebrow raisers as Erica Jong's How to Save Your Own Life and Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. "It is unwise to disparage the well-made popular," he warns...
Lilly, the younger sister, stops growing after the age of eight, but this fact is never fully explained in the movie: it is only after reading the novel that we understand why no one raises an eyebrow when this little girl not only publishes a best selling novel, but also writes a screenplay to help her sister take revenge against a man who once raped...
...Power failures kept thousands shivering in the dark. Lander, Wyo. (pop. 7,867), was blacked out for twelve hours; owners of wood-burning stoves invited strangers in to share the warmth. Even the Dynasty crowd loosened up under the chill: at the exclusive annual Denver Debutante Ball, hardly an eyebrow was raised when the cellist put a down "jacket on over his tuxedo to play. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the A.A.A. was so swamped with pleas from stranded motorists that it was forced to take phones off the hook for three hours, only the third time it had done...
...most promising and engaging personality on the summer replacement circuit is Johnny Carson, 29-year-old comic of CBS's The Johnny Carson Show (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.D.T.). With a droll sense of humor, Carson never raises his voice, but has an effective way of raising an eyebrow, and he combines a slow double-take with a quick smile. Given good material, he could be irresistibly funny...
DIED. John Williams, 80, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), ever-so-straight, mustachioed British-born actor who inevitably played the impeccable Englishman (with just an arched-eyebrow hint of pompousness) in a career of more than 50 years; of a ruptured blood vessel; in La Jolla, Calif. His most famous role was the somewhat distracted, tenacious police inspector in both the stage and film productions of Dial M for Murder...