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...satisfy herself with plastic plants in her house and settle for brightly colored glass ceiling fixtures"? Why does a Harlem socialite place a huge Steuben glass bowl in the center of her coffee table and fill it with gold-painted walnuts? Why, he asks, do so many blacks drink Kool-Aid and smoke Kool cigarettes? Birmingham's answers are even more idiosyncratic than his questions. He theorizes that "the associations of the words Kool and cool, as in 'keeping one's cool' and 'playing it cool,' have much to do with this." But progress...
...energy, pacing and abundance of detail, this story resembles The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). Wolfe's finest book and the keenest look at the psychedelic '60s yet written. These works suggest that his strongest card may not be satire at all. As entertaining as he is when he stands on the beach and points, Wolfe is most valuable when he journeys inside the whale...
...Electric Kool...
Saint Laurent model on the runway. At his left is a stack of white sketching cards; behind him sits Hazel, his beige Chihuahua. Drawing on a Kool, Saint Laurent plucks a dagger-sharp 2-B pencil from a pot at his right and swiftly, unerringly limns a costume. Or, between vision and commitment, he will fiddle with a handful of worry trinkets, the Captain Queeg of couture...
...considers safe. Several manufacturers, including Armour, General Mills, Nabisco and Revlon, say that they stopped using Red No. 2 long ago; others, such as Borden and Ralston Purina, are in the last stages of the changeover. General Foods, which used Red No. 2 in some flavors of JellO, Kool-Aid and Gaines pet foods, says it stopped a week before the FDA ruling...