Word: shadowing
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...make the story seem contemporary, Lawrence introduces a medicine cabinet full of new pharmaceuticals and shaves more than 20 years off the women's ages (when Shadow opens in 1987, the women are roughly the same age they were when the first book ended in 1965), but she does little else to update Susann's formula...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...
...thinly veiled sketches of the wealthy and well known, Susann was one of the first to wallow in the lifestyles of the rich and infamous. She could not have anticipated the E! network, the O.J. trial and her own literary heirs Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins. In Shadow, the flesh is still willing, but Susann's spirit is gone...
Last summer, as I walked through the Yard each morning on my way to work, I promised myself that I’d spend the next summer abroad. I had visions of casually sipping cappuccino under the shadow of Notre Dame or strolling along the Thames. Instead, each day I walk from my Dewolfe Street apartment to Widener Library...
...That?s undoubtedly a welcome change for a woman who began her professional life as a fiercely independent and ambitious lawyer, and who only now is beginning to emerge from years obscured by her husband?s all-encompassing, and often burdensome shadow. It must be a great relief for Clinton to know there will be no more apologizing for or explaining her husband?s behavior. This is a taste of real freedom - finally, she is accountable only to her constituents, and responsible for no one but herself...