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...many of the women in this dictionary are undoubtedly strangers to most people. It is possible that Notable American Women's value as a research aid will be supplanted initially by its value as a first introduction to these overlooked figures. Although the cost, even of the recently-published paperback edition, is prohibitive to the average book-buyer, book stores and librarians afford ample opportunity for opening one of the volumes, to whatever page; the experience is bound to be illuminating. "Notable" in fact is a broadly used term to describe these women. The grande dames of the suffrage...
...women have spent $12.95 for a book telling them how to get rid of a substance some call cellulite* (pronounced cell-u-leet), which supposedly accumulates beneath the skin to form unsightly dimples and bulges. Now thousands more, lured by television commercials, are shelling out $5.95 for a paperback version of the same book. As a result, Cellulite (Bantam Books) is on some newspaper bestseller lists. Nutritionists, who consider the book's premises unsound though essentially harmless, are shaking their heads in amusement-or envy...
...churches across the country: in the past 14 years 300,000 women have taken the eight-week, $15 course. Their primary text is Andelin's 1965 book, Fascinating Womanhood (Pacific Press; $6.95), which has sold more than 400,000 copies, and is about to be issued in paperback. Students will be paying $12.50 for a new kit that includes the paperback edition of Womanhood, plus such items as the Domestic Goddess Planning Notebook, for listing tomorrow's chores, and the Love Book, for scribbling down the endearments her husband will utter once the wife learns her lessons...
Sheila Levine is based on a novel (written by Co-Scenarist Gail Parent) that sold fittingly few hard-cover copies. With the benefit of massive promotion, the paperback hit big, so perhaps the film makers thought they had a good thing. To make it better, they cast Jeannie Berlin (the scorned wife in The Heartbreak Kid") as the eponymous heroine. Sheila is fresh out of college, a Jewish princess from Harrisburg, Pa., who gets her heart broken in the big city. She falls hard for a doctor (mother will be pleased) who treats her casually (mother will be irked...
...middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit's Cass Technical High School; Edna Rae as a fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean as a model for paperback book covers in New York; and Ellen McRae in Broadway's Fair Game in 1957. Comments Burstyn: "I was a checker player, not chess. I could only see one move ahead...