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...first hit, Love to Love You Baby, she got a gold record by simulating orgasm 22 times and cajoling, in her best jailbait voice, "Do it to me again and again." Her latest hit, taken from her platinum album, Live and More, is a discofied rendering of Jimmy L. Webb's Mac Arthur Park, in which Donna can rise above the hot-pants reveries of her earlier work into the headier regions of post-psychedelic poesy. Try this: "Someone left the cake out in the rain/ I don't think that I can take it/ 'Cause it took so long...
FIELDS OF FIRE by James Webb Prentice Hall; 344 pages...
...increase since Jan. 1. Not bad for a company that has never paid a cash dividend. Resorts will soon split 3 for 1, and it is scarcely the only big winner. Some others, with their rises from April through August: Caesars World, 583%; Playboy, 351%; Bally, 283%; Del Webb, 281%; and Harrah...
Before the 15-hour sale ended, some bidders had grown grouchy as they saw the cost of the prize soar. "They sounded as if they had low blood sugar, and I offered to send them sandwiches," recalls Webb. For the winner, Elaine Koster, 37, editor in chief and publisher of New American Library, the problem was breathable air. The cooling system in her office overlooking a gaudy flank of the Americana Hotel had been shut off. At 8 p.m. she retreated to her more comfortable West Side apartment for the final and triumphant round...
...consumer price index for the same period rose 44.8%. Where will it end? Inflation is not likely to vanish and neither is the desire of publishers to secure bigger blockbusters. This is almost certain to cause new records in paperback auctions. Says Putnam's Webb: "There's no ceiling. God knows, there's no ceiling...