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...PLUM PIE by P. G. Wodehouse. 252 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...thing, sir. May I mention that Plum Pie, thanks to the information I provided, also contains rather cutting portrayals of a number of your-er, associates, notably Bingo Little, Cyril Grooly, Freddie Threepwood and Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. One feels that you emerge as the ablest...
...Plum & Apricot. His latest show is also largely women-but, reflecting the fact that De Kooning has become a year-round resident of The Springs, near East Hampton on the tip of Long Island, they are now red-lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen...
...paintings, for all their bizarre imagery, are alive with color. De Kooning's intricate palette combines lemon, lime, fig, plum, raspberry, apricot and apple-blossom pink. Flooding the canvas is the clear country light that streams through his $200,000 studio, a structure that has gone through almost as many alterations as one of his paintings...
Otero's biographer, Arthur H. Lewis (The Day They Shook the Plum Tree), is a former newspaperman in the old copydesk tradition, relying heavily on choice clips and spicy quotes. He also does his duty by psychology and suggests that the fatherless Otero's entire life may not have been so much a triumphant romp as a protest against the man who raped her. If so, she certainly kept on protesting-and protesting. She had her last lover, it has been said, at 60. A compulsive gambler, she had lost her entire fortune by 1926 at the casino...