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The trouble with Jane Somers' first novel, The Diary of a Good Neighbor, was not that it was poorly reviewed but that it was scarcely reviewed at all. The few critics who noticed the book liked it, but Somers, identified on the book jacket as the pseudonym of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Golden Hoax Book | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Lessing, 64, author of such works as The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Golden Hoax Book | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Rape is now regarded as a crime of violence, not passion. Sex is not the chief thing that motivates rapists, says A. Nicholas Groth, director of an innovative sex-offender program at the state prison in Somers, Conn. "Rape is the sexual expression of aggression."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

That was about the only celebration not planned for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their ten-day visit to the West Coast. After lunch aboard U.S.S. Ranger (where a sailor, Devon Rowlands, said it had been "a bigger deal when Suzanne Somers visited in 1981"), they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Majesty in Mellowland | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

In the second stage, the name-dropper refers to the dropee in such a way as to imply a certain amount of intimacy between the two. The link may be as tenuous as "I was at a party with Suzanne Somers" or "Donald Sutherland walked into the drugstore while I...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Really, Ronald, They Repulse Me | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

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