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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAME may not get an oooh! for originality, but it certainly makes the grade as a musical ornament on the Broadway branches. Angela Lansbury is the twinkling star at the top of the tree...
...side of Petit Jean for an irrigation system, built roads and an airfield. He owns four planes, including a ten-passenger jet, employs five pilots, and has flown more than 3,000,000 miles with his private air force. He has no hobbies apart from occasional tree-pruning excursions. His vocation and avocation have become the state and the State of Arkansas...
Snagged & Blinded. CaterineMilinaire wears a mirror-top dress; Charlotte Ford was last seen wearing silver-embroidered ivory lace with matching boots. Chicago Socialite Fay Peck owns at least a dozen pairs of Christmas-tree-ball earrings, plus three short glitter dresses, which, she says, "I haven't taken off since the time I bought them." To the San Francisco Opera Guild's annual Fol de Rol ball, Nancy Adler, the conductor's wife, came in a silver and white plaid dress, and Pia Lindstrom (now a local TV hostess) wore a silver brocade pants suit. Three...
...Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter on my Christmas tree, I'm so sick of it. It's everywhere. In everything. On their shoes. On their eyelids. It's a treat to see a woman in a plain, unembellished dress...
Some critics have added Petrakis' name to the literary tree that bore Homer and Nikos Kazantzakis. That's going out on a limb, perhaps. It is reasonable enough to say that this third novel has the virtues of forthrightness and utter simplicity and shows, at least, how much a little hubris on the author's part can improve an indifferent story...