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Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...
Three playwrights-an English poet, a French ex-convict, an American scarcely out of college-are giving off-Broadway audiences more philosophy (both weird and traditional), more wit and more theatricality than can be heard or seen in Broadway's most wretched season...
...spirited performances of madrigals by a dozen all-but-forgotten composers of the 16th century. The names include Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Costanzo Porta and Gioseppe Caimo, and the themes have to do with the hazards of love. The music, performed by seven singers with occasional guitar and harpsichord accompaniment, has wit moments of placid beauty, and a colorfully antique...
Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The author concentrates largely on the female of the species in these stories, and proves Kipling's point about its deadliness with chilling wit...
...scrubbed herself only once a month, "whether she needed it or no." Thus it may be seen that the history of the human race's sanitary habits is by no means an unchecked upward gush. British Expert Wright-an architect, not a plumber-charts the flow with scholarship, wit, and handsome illustrations ; the resulting volume is better bathtub reading than most recent novels...