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...Helen Gurley Brown," begins the mistress of ceremonies of the new TV show Outrageous Opinions. "I've written a few books, Sex and the Single Girl, etc., and now I'm editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. I'm terribly interested in women, and in men, too, and especially in the things they do together. We're going to find out about the personal lives and loves and hopes and hang-ups and problems of some very well-known people. I'm not afraid to ask them anything. Don't you be afraid to listen...
...only thing to fear is the show itself. Syndicated in 15 U.S. cities since September, Outrageous Opinions takes on one guest at a time for half an hour, five days a week. The key subject, of course, is sex, but Mistress Brown cannot always make her guests come across. Norman Mailer, poet laureate of the orgasm, explained that he had come on the program to plug his new book. "I thought we were going to talk about ideas," he said coyly...
...circular roomful of giant, moonlike women's heads with protruding noses and eyes set in their cheeks that seem to float like his "classic" line drawings and etchings of the 1930s. The busts were inspired by Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso's mistress of that period, modeled in clay and cast in bronze-yet the world heretofore has known them only by the paintings he made of them...
...mutual involvement in the affair (and the sonnets) becomes more intense when the poet and the mistress ally against (hypothetically) skeptical readers...
...precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot's Encyclopédie distinction between the words bind and attach: "One is bound to one's wife, attached to one's mistress." But the authors also do reasonably well on their own, as when they say of Louis XV that he "lacked the art of dying in due time...