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...forgive a satire magazine for failing to be funny, or original, or mature. Or even forgive the Freudian make-up and the New Haven mailing address. But the greatest sin which satire can commit is being dull. And Monocle is better than sex for insomnia...
...Shuffle. When General William Booth launched a new era in evangelism 80 years ago with his drum-thumping, quasi-military corps, sin was conspicuous and shocking. A prostitute looking for a respectable job ran the risk of being thrown bodily out of her prospective employer's premises, with the chair on which she had been sitting thrown after her as too contaminated for decent people. Skirts were drawn aside from an unmarried mother, and curbstone drunks would crowd the Army's public meetings desperate for hope and help...
...themselves the questions that man has always posed since first he came into the world. They will ask themselves the old questions and search for the answers: Who made us; why are we here; what is the purpose of life; is there right and wrong; is there sin; is there...
...passionate male onslaught before the evening has even begun. On their own, many U.S. women seem to think that perfume is out of step with the clean, sporty American look. Though makers sold $110 million worth of fragrance products last year (top three perfumes: Arpege, Chanel No. 5, My-Sin), the perfume market has barely expanded in the last ten years. "Perfume is a woman's secret weapon," says Jean Desprèes, executive vice president of Coty...
STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET, by Evan Hunter (375 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50). Nature is easily kept in check by powered lawn mowers in suburban Pinecrest Manor, an hour from Broadway, but human nature creates a thick underbrush of sin and suffering. With the dull Cape Cods, the boring neighbors, the endless trivia of gossip, there is not much to turn to for excitement. Architect Larry Cole, who loves his wife and two youngsters after eight years of faultless married life, turns to Margaret Gault, a beautiful blonde whose husband spends a lot of time in an aircraft factory...