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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh Meat/Warm Weather by Joyce Eliason. 145 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. "How strange it is," the heroine of this fierce and finely tuned little novel is reminded, "that Mormons, like Jews, nurture that feeling of inferiority in themselves while still believing they are God's Chosen People." As the book progresses, that paradoxical condition becomes both a rankling irony and a saving strength...
...rich, the devices by which they assuage guilt, and the hustles wrought on them from below. That was the motif of his last book, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970). It also supplies the comedy of manners for his new one, The Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment of modern art in general and of American painting and its social milieu in particular. Instead, it emerges as a curious document of frustration...
Although Margaux is almost literally out of sight, she is not alone in the rather special world of professional beauties. Many make $100,000 a year or more from their looks. "You either have it or you don't," says Carrie Donovan of Harper's Bazaar. "A beauty must be able to project herself, be dramatic, an actress." Hollywood Starlet Deborah Raffin, 22, a lean blonde with almost cliché American looks, has projected herself with more effect on the covers of glossy magazines than in the movies. Picked at age 19 to play Liv Ullmann...
...would drop off, and prices would then have to rise again to cover editorial costs and other overhead expenses. Newsweek would perhaps have to make a similar leap, as would such other weeklies as Saturday Review, The New Yorker, New York magazine and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Even monthlies, such as Harper's and Reader's Digest, would have to hit their subscribers with drastic price increases. Religious, labor and farm publications would also be severely hurt...
...more professional-and garish-is Gerold Frank's oversized Judy (Harper & Row; $12.50). Ex-Ghostwriter Frank is a sob brother with impeccable credentials (I'll Cry Tomorrow; Beloved Infidel). He merchandises anecdotes with the craft of an attorney summing up for the jury. But does the author stand for defense or prosecution? Frank's descriptions of Garland on Garland are acute and empathetic: "She saw herself so impersonally she could say of her photograph, 'I don't like her hair that way,' or of herself on the screen, 'She could have done that...