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...displayed a fresh and distinctive style that is the mark of a maturing artist. Choreographed to three of Beethoven's last quartets, Orbs is a kind of astronaughty tour of love and life on the planets. In the Venusian Spring segment, the Sun God (Taylor) conducts a primer course in lovemaking, repeatedly stroking his loins until two couples get the idea and engage in a "micro-orgy." This leads to Martian Summer, in which the Sun God, wearing a mask on the back of his head, is by sudden twists and turns a scowling accuser and a smiling protector...
...Washington advises: "You will neither chew tobacco in the lady's drawing room nor swallow the warm water contained in the finger bowls." Well that doesn't hardly happen any more. Still, the Woman's National Democratic Club decided that it was time for a new primer for capital hostesses and published Party Diary: Planning Ahead and the "Fete" Accompli, a 100-page guidebook anthologizing social notes and comments from the city's experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Hostess Gwen Cafritz purrs modestly: "With...
...most brides, the guide during the transitional years was Irma Rombauer's Joy of Cooking, a primer that marked a distinct advance upon Fannie...
...that reconciles the "left" tone of U.S.A. with the "rightist" color of District of Columbia. Big Business was the enemy in U.S.A. In District, the focus of power shifted: the first novel in that trilogy dealt with the power of Communism to corrupt innocent idealism; the second was a primer on political demagoguery; the third a parable directed against the emotional debaucheries of the New Deal in its Popular Front war phase. Most Likely to Succeed, his latest novel, repeats that theme...
...table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious bit of trenchermanship since Albert Finney and Joyce Redman fed their faces in Tom Jones...