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...breakthrough in fashion misogyny displays was Photographer Helmut Newton's spread in the May 1975 Vogue ("The Story of Ohhh ..."), which included shots of a woman wincing in pain as a man bit her left ear, and another of a man ramming a hand into a woman's breast. Newton, who is regarded as one of the fashion world's most elegant photographers-and also one of its kings of kink-has since turned out a series of pictures showing women as killers and victims. Perhaps the most shocking showed a woman's head being forced...
...Technicolor on a wide screen in my head, and I hear the characters speak every line of dialogue before I write it. All my heroes look like Clint Eastwood -I've had this absurd crush on him for years." Her heroines she imagines as Jacqueline Bisset or Olivia Newton-John. "I just write what comes to me. Sometimes I turn a passage in to Avon without rereading it. I'm just now learning to rewrite competently. But I could never do things to please critics or an intellectual coterie. I write to please ordinary people-I write...
...FLETCHER NEWTON...
...NEWTON THORNBURG...
Keep an eye on Newton Thornburg. He has followed his first, rather clumsy effort, To Die in California (1972), with a fine second novel that is tense, funny and despairing. Its literary persuasiveness is generated by an extraordinary pair of characters who sound derivative and unprepossessing but run away with the book. Alex Cutter is a disfigured cripple; in Viet Nam he lost an arm, a leg and an eye. As if to make up for these missing parts, he is a full-time resister and iconoclast who loudly lacerates the world with mockery. His friend and foil is Rich...