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...doubt part of the constantly increasing sales of the Little House series (more than 2,000,000 so far) is accounted for by grandmothers and indulgent aunts bearing gifts. The books are standard stock (along with E.B. White, The Wizard of Oz and Dr. Seuss) in virtually every U.S. bookstore with a children's section. The publisher, Harper & Row, reports receiving upwards of 3,000 fan letters a year (which they answer with a form letter originally prepared by Mrs. Wilder...
...WIZARD OF THE UPPER AMAZON by Manuel Córdova-Rios and F. Bruce Lamb. 203 pages. Atheneum...
...time to consider that putting a large round mold into a small square oven would not fail to take its toll on the dessert's overall proportions. We closed the door and prepared to wait out the three minutes at 450, but after about thirty seconds our Mr. Wizard-like curiosity overwhelmed us: ice cream in the oven? We flipped the oven door open nervously and found the meringue slipping slowly down around the knees of the melting mold. Out of the oven; onto the platter; half-eggshell filled with flaming cognac jammed onto the mold; lights out; into...
...Exec [suave but stern]: All right, gentlemen. We've sold the studio. We've sold the offices. We sold the commissary. We even sold the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Now we have to sell movies. [Low chorus of enthusiastic murmurs from subordinates.] We gave them Zabriskie Point, and we even put back all the sex and dope stuff that had been cut out. The public still didn't go for it. We gave them The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, the tender story of a student's search for identity. Nice...
...this as a very hip film, very freewheeling. We can even do some gags about other pictures. Bullitt. The Birds. Very hip, very in. We can-and this I really think is terrific-we can even do a bit with the ruby slippers. Maybe get that old witch from Wizard...