Word: holte
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Reviewing Kael's latest book of movie reviews, When the Lights Go Down (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $18.95), in the Aug. 14 New York Review of Books, Adler not only calls the volume "worthless," she proceeds to incinerate Kael on the gravest imaginable grounds for a New Yorker writer: vulgarity, shoddy writing and sloppy thinking. Adler admits that until recently she had been an admirer of Kael's because "she was the critic everyone knew and talked about." But on closer analysis-something Adler feels that no one has accorded Kael's writing in years-a different conclusion...
GLADYS, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH by Hugo Vickers Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 308 pages...
FATAL FLOWERS by Rosemary Daniell Holt, Rinehart & Winston 293 pages...
...Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 194 pages...