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Delightfully illustrated with pictures of artifacts from the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, The Light of the Home illuminates the deadening burden that male supremacy imposed during the 19th century. Throughout Historian Harvey Green's lively text, advertisements, advice columns, how-to manuals and diaries kept by women of the period attest to an oppressed existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest...
...pressure, elapsed time, mileage and calorie burn-off. When Americans are not exercising, they seem to want to read about it or see other people doing it. Health and diet books make up six of the 15 titles on the New York Times bestseller list. Jane Fonda's workout how-to video cassettes placed No. 2 on the charts last week, behind the movie An Officer and a Gentleman...
Such modesty typifies the manner of Adventures in the Screen Trade, a loose collection of anecdotes from Goldman's Hollywood experiences, plus thoughts on the present state of the film industry and how-to hints for aspiring writers with stars in their eyes. Goldman does not mention his two Oscars (for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men) or the beefy six-figure fees that his work has commanded. He emphasizes instead the pervasive uncertainty that seeps through all stages of moviemaking. He sets "the single most important fact" about his subject...
...active member of a drug conspiracy. A gigantic mistake, he says; he was actually no more than a spectator absorbing material for a novel. A ten-member jury will decide, perhaps this week, which portrait matches Stratton. Either way, though, the outcome should be worth a cautionary mention in any how-to book for writers who want to investigate society's criminal element without stepping over the line...
...assisting a suicide is a crime, but under the First Amendment, how-to manuals may be published. Thus, Let Me Die Before I Wake, put out by Hemlock, a Los Angeles-based organization named for the potion taken by Socrates, has been sold freely in bookstores. A more compassionate work than its British counterpart, Let Me Die gives case histories of desperately sick patients who have sought to end their lives. In recounting successful attempts, the book gives the precise doses of the drugs used...