Word: susanne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middlebrow' and 'lowbrow' levels of taste." "A culturally equal society," writes Gans approvingly, "would thus treat all ways of expressing oneself and acting as equal in value, status and moral worth." But why should a taste for Lawrence Welk instead of Pablo Casals, or Jacqueline Susann instead of James Joyce, be held of equal value, status and moral worth? "Because," answers Gans, "they express the differing aesthetic standards of people in different socioeconomic and educational circumstances." Out of that academic window goes all thought of standards, judgment and improved tastes. But what a patronizing way to enshrine...
...hunter is keener than a best-selling novelist on the prowl for a bankable plot. So when Jacqueline Susann said that she had always wanted to write about "women in their prime who lose their husbands by death or divorce," the results were predictable. The current Ladies' Home Journal contains a 15,000-word novelette (Dolores) that reads -well, like art imitating life. Pantherlike Dolores Cortez is widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year...
Assembled for a kaffeeklatsch on Barbara Walters' syndicated television show Not for Women Only were three bestselling authors and their analyst. Jacqueline Susann (Once Is Not Enough), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Breakfast of Champions), Alex Comfort (The Joy of Sex) and New York Times Book Reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt participated in what turned out to be a brisk round of alternate back-patting and oneupmanship. Susann gushed to Vonnegut, who replaced her at the top of the lists: "I'm your No. 1 fan. People expect us to be enemies. We're not." Lehmann-Haupt reminded the authors...
Erdman (2 last week) 2-The Hollow Hills, Stewart ( 3-The Honorary Consul,Greene (5) 4-World Without End, Amen, 8resLin (3) 5-Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut (4) 6-The Salamander, West (7) 7-Once Is Not Enough, Susann (8) 8-Harvest Home, Tryon (6) 9-North Dallas Forty, Genf 10-Facing the Lions, Wicker...
...from Hollywood for a European vacation with her new friend Jacqueline Susann, invincible Actress Doris Day, 49, stopped over in New York and had a chat with the man who will write her biography, A.E. Hotchner. Doris impressed the writer with her lack of pretentiousness. During her brief Manhattan visit, she rode a rented bike around Central Park; back at her hotel, the only thing she ordered from room service was an ironing board. How did she make friends with Novelist Susann, 48, who after all specializes in the kind of sex scenes Doris refuses to play? They both love...