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...PEAK IN DARIEN (252 pp.)-Roswell G. Ham Jr.-Putnam...
...serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some of the same deft flair for eyedropping vermouth into the suburban martini...
Free Fall. Before he has properly begun to hope, Wink begins to grope-with Virginia's wrist watch-at the local beach club. The assembled giddy-biddies pick the pair's backbones in whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want...
Status Eking. Author Ham laces the willful charm of his love story with a carbonated commentary on suburbanitis, with its worship of errant gadgets (" 'Patent applied for' but never to be granted, I trust"), anxious affluence ("We had enough trouble living 10% over our income"), status eking ("If the price was down around $17,000-in Darien that meant one room and an outhouse on a twenty-by-twenty lot under the New Haven Railroad tracks") and nostalgic concupiscence ("There hasn't been an organized wife-swapping party in Darien or New Canaan for five years...
Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr.) as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like...