A TALE FOR MIDNIGHT (354 pp.)—Frederic Prokosch—Little, Brown ($3.95).
Beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of one of Rome’s proudest 16th century families, had just taken her first lover. The scene: a heap of empty sacks in the wine cellar. The man: her father’s steward. “Time passed. She heard the drops clicking rhythmically from a spigot. The smell of wine, the scent of burlap, the pungent scent of Olimpio—they wove a dark separate world, safe, secret, profound. Read More...
“/ have heard it said that Arctic explorers are inferior men who would be lost in the civilized world.”
So said Arctic Explorer Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen. who never understood what a man wanted with the steam-heated creature comforts of civilization. Yet in civilization or out. inferior was hardly the word for Freuchen. who managed to fashion successful careers as newspaperman, lecturer, travel writer and novelist (Eskimo ). During World War II, the vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country’s anti-Nazi underground. Read More...
With the release of Bratz in 2001, fashion dolls were ushered into the 21st century with a whole new attitude and revealing wardrobes that critics claimed were far too sexy for tween girls to play with. These 10-in. dolls, created by Carter Bryant and MGA Entertainment, were dubbed the anti-Barbies. They had modern names like Cloe, Jade, Sasha and Yasmin and wore lots of glittery makeup around their huge, doelike eyes. Read More...
