Word: isadora
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...they're even foul and raunchy and wicked and deliciously naughty sometimes. He's OK, She's OK--so let's all deal with it and come to grips with it and relax. The happy hooker didn't cut it because she was young and beautiful; Flying's Isadora, though, was over 30 and sort of dumpy, she had cellulite and body odor; the housewife could relate. So here was the message--anyone could be raunchy...
...theory that there's some sort of vague socially redeeming value or at least some source of moral relief in that thought, Jong brings us Fanny, seven years after Isadora--the woman who admitted she was flattered when her lover felt at ease farting in her presence--slept her way to stardom in Fear of Flying. Some will hail Fanny as a reflection of Jong's maturation as a writer. In a sense, that analysis is correct--if Isadora was raunchy, then Fanny Hackabout-Jones is downright base...
...student who slit his wrist and two who ran their cars into trees. "Growing up here, you're handed everything on a silver platter, but something else is missing. The one thing parents don't give is love, understanding, acceptance of you as a person." Adds Isadora Sherman of Highland Park's Jewish Family and Community Service: "People give their kids a lot materially, but expect a lot in return. No one sees his kids as average, and those who don't perform are made to feel like failures...
...surplus of ivory coming out of the Congo prompted the Belgian government to offer the material free to sculptors. Many accepted, and the ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they...
Although she said she believes her books became successful because women could identify with the struggles of her heroine, she added "The Fear of Flying is revolutionary because Isadora endures...