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...party offered much champagne, delectable finger food and an East Side address (rented for the occasion). A 3-ft-high hazelnut cake with pink icing had tilted to starboard in its box during shipping, but Hostess Shere Hite, author of the bestselling study of female sexuality, The Hite Report, propped it up with her 438-page tome. Hite threw the bash for friends who had helped her through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans...
...least 44 fantastically garbed elves, sprites, gnomes, and pixies. Some are so tiny that they can hardly be distinguished beneath leaves or behind other fairies' shoulders. And most have peculiarly distorted heads, eyes, breasts or calves. All are watching the fairy feller, who is about to cleave a hazelnut in two with his mighty...
Between the cherry crop in June and the hazelnut harvest in October, the villagers of Visciano, high in the Samnite Hills of southern Italy, have plenty of time to think. So they take it. The plainsmen down in Nola choose to think the Samnite hill people are slow-witted. "Do you come from Visciano?" they ask anyone who is particularly slow of speech...
...Tucker felt perfectly free to talk. The grafted kidney was placed where she can feel it, she said. "It's still there, it hasn't floated, and if it's only the size of a hazelnut, it's the biggest hazelnut that ever grew." Added Mrs. Tucker: "While I do have butterflies in my stomach about it, I'm more mad than anything...
...Hazelnut Size. Said McNulty: the operation was a failure. The grafted kidney was not functioning and never had. It had shrunk, he said, to the size of a hazelnut. The reason, Dr. McNulty said, was that the donor's tissues were incompatible with Mrs. Tucker's. His statements were given to reporters, and one of them phoned Mrs. Tucker...