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...camera, while an ever present tape recorder sucked the life out of him. Miller's claim is that "sometimes I think they (the photographs) reflect me even better than my own words." In fact, Miller looks like he's just been plucked out of formaldehyde. Like a medical specimen preserved for its representative qualities. Miller has been yanked off the shelf to be a symbol of something Smith's readers need, the rebel artist and the great sexual emancipator. But the photographs reveal him gliding into dotage, the dried up version of the former volcano. Smith's a pictures reach...
...secondary accounts in the name of Hanne Rosenkranz. Edith's first husband, a West German businessman named Heinz Deiter Rosenkranz, is now married to a woman named Hannah, whose West German identity card Edith evidently used in opening the account, using the diminutive Hanne. Edith forged the specimen signature to do so. In addition, Swiss authorities found that Edith's "Helga R. Hughes" passport was actually a Swiss passport that had been issued to her in the fall of 1968, after she had reported her old one missing...
...gets the girl. Niven has played this P.O. Wodehouse stereotype with such consistent charm that audiences usually assume that Niven is like that too. Not at all. In The Moon's a Balloon, his racy autobiography, Niven offers himself as a tough, ambitious international playboy-a well-preserved specimen of that almost extinct species, the gilded barfly...
...thousands of new cases each year. But detection is often difficult, especially in women. Gonococci, the germs of gonorrhea, flourish and multiply astronomically in human genitalia, but are difficult to preserve for laboratory test cultures. The organisms are sensitive to air and often die by the time a specimen reaches a lab technician. Now Smith Kline and French Laboratories have devised a simple, self-contained test that physicians can perform in their own offices. The doctor takes a single smear from the patient's vaginal or anal area, places it in a tube enriched with a nutrient developed...
...Specimen Days by Walt Whitman. 197 pages. Godine. $25. It was Randall Jarrell who said that Walt Whitman is usually written about "as if he were the hero of a DeMille movie about Walt Whitman." These memoirs should provide a freshening reminder that he was a gentle, reticent, large-minded man. Included are early recollections, the famous Civil War journals, and some serene "nature notes" from his last years. IIlustrated by 133 contemporary photographs, including many by Brady and Eakins, the book is one of the year's handsomest and most appropriately produced...