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...less," she laughed, "now that it's out." Still a vigorous defender of the glories of housewifery, the 1961 Pulitzer prizewinner had little praise for modern poets. "They stopped using rhyme, and they stopped using meter," she complained. "They're just kind of wandering about, like Erica Jong." Slowed down recently by a stroke and pneumonia, McGinley has all but given up writing her own agile light verse. She spends her time in her Manhattan apartment reading and watching her favorite TV shows, M*A*S*H and The Streets of San Francisco. "I don't like...
Actress Shirley MacLaine lost her fear of flying long before Erica Jong's heroine Isadora Wing began cuddling her banalities and faking worldliness like a high school girl boasting about lost virginity. In fact, MacLaine's life far exceeds the fantasies that the fictional Isadora plays out hi Fear of Flying. At 40, MacLaine is an enviable example of the liberated quadraphonic life: a film star who could command $800,000 a movie, a wife and mother who appears to operate a successful open marriage, and a citizen who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention...
...Erica Jong's heroine's idea of sexual bliss [Feb. 3] seems to derive from masculine flatulence and her partner's unwashed feet. It is not uninhibited openness but commercialism; not Molly Bloom or the powerfully abominable Henry Miller, but a shrewd hawking of The Most Repulsive as The Most Sincere, in keeping with Madison Avenue gospels. Male characters, supposedly psychoanalysts and Freudians, speak and act like disgusting junior-high-schoolers with IQs of 70. Ms. Jong so often refers to herself as a writer that a suspicion arises whether she is not just someone...
...success of her book has surprised no one more than Jong, who considered it too "literary" for wide appeal. But literary it is not. Poorly constructed, too prone to phrases like "our mouths melted like liquid," it has a shapeless, self-indulgent plot and weak characterizations, especially of the men. But Isadora obviously has wide appeal. Says her creator: "Fear of Flying is a litmus test for everybody's mishegoss [Yiddish for craziness]." Warren Farrell, a spokesman for the men's liberation movement, feels that Fear of Flying will help free both sexes. As women take more initiative...
Many feminists, however, find Isadora's obsession with men a confirmation of the worst stereotypes about women. Sandra Hochman, author of Walking Papers, admires Jong's frankness but complains that Isadora is "just another female loser, left in the end to choose between one creep and another." Becky Gould, newly elected president of the National Organization for Women in Los Angeles, objects to the fact that Jong's heroine "derives her identity through her relationships with men. She is prefeminist, confusing libidinal bluntness with liberation." Gould concedes, however, that Jong has helped make headway for women writers...