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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...takes the form of a memoir composed by Rachel Samstat, cookbook writer and veteran of two marriages. The first, to a neurasthenic "so neat he put hospital corners on the newspaper he lined the hamster cage with," is a mutual misunderstanding. The second, to Columnist Mark Feldman, is even more calamitous. As Rachel acknowledges, "The man is capable of having sex with a Venetian blind." Even so, she is astonished when, swollen with her second pregnancy, she learns that Mark has been sleeping with Washington Hostess Thelma Rice. "The most unfair thing about this whole business," she begins, "is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wallflower at the Orgy | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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