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...hard to see why the late Jacqueline Susann, author of the no-qual best seller Valley of the Dolls, got so upset. All Truman Capote had done was to mention to Johnny Carson, on the Tonight show, that Susann looked "like a truck driver in drag." No offense there. "Bitchy, yes; malicious, no," Capote explained in a letter to Susann's attorney, Louis Nizer, after she filed suit. Capote went on to praise Nizer's own letter to him as well written: "If only your client . . . had your sense of style!" Susann took this badly and caricatured Capote...
...first hoot almost suicidal for the networks: for every one of the games that is in play, one television set, to which it must be hooked, is unavailable to receive General Hospital, The Dukes of Hazzard, and much needed information about what kind of snow tire and no-qual beer to choose. Has the tube at last succeeded in strangling itself...
...literary equivalent of retreating to the cellar with a jug. Naturally it is not easy to find a good worthless novel, but this month the reader with a November in his soul is in luck. John D. MacDonald, the nation's best writer of no-qual crime fantasies, has turned out two splendid and utterly unmeritorious volumes...
...before the age of ten, against art teachers who reward copying and discourage imagination, and against the parent's temptation to cry out: "It's a man!" "All children are natural artists," Mrs. Kellogg says, "so why not let them be? Their art has a natural esthetic qual ity. All of it is beautiful, and none of it is ugly...
...fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead ing me back to primitive ideas and in stincts." Fascinated but also scared, the Frenchman writes : "No European woman had ever played the same part in my life." Another Age. The distinguishing qual ity of French colonialism was its lack of racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already belongs to another age, and in the once-prized colony, only a few French linger today. Corporal Riesen barely had time to write his book and to enjoy the fruits of his Croix...