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MIAMI, that lotus land of sun, sand, surf and swimming pools, is also a city of golf and mah-jongg, of Shecky Greene and Liza Minnelli-a high-rolling town where lacquered young ladies comb the bars along Collins Avenue through the long, hot winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin...
Beach Boys. I just finished reading a long rap in Outlaw Blues between Paul Williams and David Anderle about what a genius Brian Wilson is was. I guess so. I liked the surfing and car music, but "Surf's Up" hit me like a three footer coming in to Virginia Beach. What ever happened to "Smile...
...spur less public debate than medical texts. But there are exceptions to that rule. The authors of The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice sought to call attention to "certain landmarks the students must recognize" by including in their anatomy book a few photos of nude women splashing in the surf or posing seductively on swings. The resulting volume is closer to Playboy than to Gray's Anatomy. The reaction to the book was predictable. In a letter to the 1,000-member Association of Women in Science (AWIS) of which she is president-elect, Dr. Estelle Ramey of Georgetown...
...appointed Maurice Nadjari, 48, superprosecutor. Tall, lean, tightlipped, Nadjari has spent some 18 years as a prosecutor. He was instrumental in the conviction of Murph the Surf and his two pals in the Star of India thefts from the American Museum of Natural History in 1964. As part of the search for the elusive gems, he even went scuba diving off Miami Beach. Later he successfully prosecuted Republican officials on Long Island for taking bribes in return for zoning changes. "If you went to central casting for a prosecutor," says a Rockefeller aide, "this is the man you would...
...audience and collected a handful of top mystery-writing prizes. More than that, Freeling goes beyond the formulas of suspense to offer a complex picture of postwar Europe, uneasy with its new prosperity and haunted by past fears. In American thrillers, only Ross Macdonald's use of the surf and drug culture of California has similar resonance. Like Macdonald, Freeling writes so well that readers may feel he should devote himself to straight fiction or -considering the state of the contemporary novel-be grateful that he does...