Word: pillows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living. The point is that there isn't any point in writing the new book on women and liberation if you can't see your way clear through the issues involved. So, you didn't tell us anything new, though you gave us a lot of good juice and pillow talk, which was nice. You didn't write the book we need which would show us a woman etching out a serious liberation. Your Isadora, though, survives through her work, and for handles to hold on to that's an awfully solid start. Perhaps the only sure place to start...
...with suspiciously tall glass-eye tales. Examples: unfairly called out at third base during a high school baseball game, he handed the umpire the appurtenance, saying, "Here, you could use another eye"; at a girl friend's house a few years later, he put the eye under his pillow, only to wake in the wee hours to the sound of crunching glass-the girl's dog had found...
...with knotted ties. Each had been shot in the neck or head with a small-caliber pistol. Some had taken longer to die than others. Debbie had been hit by four slugs, her father by five. In all, 25 bullets were recovered from the bodies, plus one from the pillow of Bob Parkin...
...stays short on dazzle. All the momentum established is artificial and constantly stalls out into spurious suspense. There are some nice incidental observations about the eccentricities of the rich-Cordell has his face imprinted on his personal checks and sleeps with a sort of large, mystic stone under his pillow-but watching The Inheritor gives a general feeling of false movements, like getting jostled in a crowd...
...Tears on My Pillow" slowed down and personalized into a poignant depiction of lost love is simply tremendous, as is "Teenager in Love" in which (swear to God) Chico actually cries. New numbers "Sha Boom" and "Summertime" are welcome deviations from the traditional Sha repertoire. "Summertime" particularly, with Johnny "Kid" Contardo once again revealing how versatile and disciplined his voice really is, is superb...