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From the South in recent years has come a corolla of gifted young novelists. Latest to adorn this company is Heather Ross Miller, 25, from North Carolina's Uwharrie River Country, where her first novel is laid. Heroine Anna Marie is obsessed by the memory of "Paw-Paw," her grandfather, "a stingy old man with a soul of tempered steel." When she is scarcely ten years old, Anna Marie stumbles upon "dirty old Paw-Paw" making love to his second wife. Later she watches from a hiding place when the half-crazed old man murders his wife and Anna...
...trend has been helped by collegians who for years have been referring to any really swinging types as "tigers." As the psychologists see it, the tiger is a symbol of virility; as the admen see it, it is a surefire gimmick: sales of U.S. Rubber's tiger-paw tires have almost doubled since it began its campaign, and tigers now absorb a third of the company's $6,000,000 tire-ad budget...
...overall evening is actually part fraudville and part vaudeville, and the vaudeville is quite good. A skillful little dog stands on one paw on its master's outstretched thumb. A girl spins and whirls in the middle of a rope whose ends are held in the teeth of two men. The sexiest item of the evening is a stripteasing marionette, who bumps, grinds, twists, and removes her bra to reveal the best shape on the hot side of the footlights. Patachou, the evening's headliner, is a once-great stylist who still has a touch of Piaf...
...form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss- good Germans were meant to give the Hitler salute instead-but der Führer himself was often photographed with his forelock fanning some actress' paw...
...selection is huge: tripes a la mode de caen and cassoulet toulousain from France, passion fruit and paw-paw from Africa, canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...