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...them is The TM Book (Price/Stern/Sloan; $3.95), an adoring introduction to the movement by Peter Me Williams, a Michigan poet, and Denise Denniston, a full-time teacher of meditation. Out less than a month, the book already ranks No. 2 on some major paperback bestseller lists, behind The Joy of Sex. Although the subtitle promises to explain "how to enjoy the rest of your life," the book in fact attempts little more than an almost childishly simple accounting of what TM is-or, more precisely, is not. The authors point out that TM is neither a religion nor a philosophy...
...Rather than start with Watergate or his presidency, Nixon intends "to give us Whittier and Mom and Dad all over again," says this source. Nixon has a strong incentive to plunge on: he has received a $350,000 advance payment so far from his publisher (Warner Paperback Library in New York) and will qualify for another such advance when he completes 200 pages. Nixon's agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, says the total promised advance is $2.5 million...
There is not a great deal to say about this pea-brained adaptation of a best-selling paperback by Xaviera Hollander, once secretary of the year in The Netherlands and, more recently, New York City's most prominent madam. In the old days, the book might have been called "spicy," delving as it does into the intimate details of the author's more elaborate entanglements. The movie-rated a no-risk R-is short on specifics of any sort and stringently unimaginative. If anything, it seems to be trying comedy, although not even that is certain...
...gleam, and it's impossible to interrupt him as he goes over the history of the two children's fiction awards (about this time his agent, a rather large woman, stops paying attention to the interview); then he says that only four other writers have even sold a million paperback copies in England-Homer, Chaucer, George Orwell, and D.H. Lawrence-but he discounts Lawrence because he thinks the book was Lady Chatterly's Lover...
...therefore, have been in a spirit of democracy as well as commerce that Producer John Hawkesworth authorized a series of pop paperback "autobiographies," which purport to reveal "the never-before-told secrets" of Hudson, the butler, Head Houseparlormaid Rose and the renegade Sarah. But good grief! As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle...