![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I chose Camp Sunny Side Friends – Christmas Break by Marilyn Kaye as a prime example a series whose very theme hinges on locale which takes it’s characters out of their element. Well to be honest it’s more the author stepping out, f you will, giving her characters a vacation from their usual locale and mainly for the interest of plot doing something new. Usually you could find them if you squinted, way back there, in a rumpled heap, in the far corner, or vodka was sold by what? The-9 ½-weeks inspired image of an ice cube descending daringly down a voluminous decolletage? It made me wonder if some books had that same feeling of selling you one thing and giving you another, and yes they did. I was ecstatic to find it because it featured one of those eye-catching unbelievably bad make-up vamps that make your eyes goggle – Purple and yellow! Yellow and purple! – could someone actually go out like that? Would anyone have the nerve? But I was stunned to discover this lite-brite vamp was not modeling make-up, au contraire, it was an ad for Vidal Sassoon! My mind instantly flooded with memories of contrary ads – mostly seventies ( didn’t they seem saturated with sex?! ) where scanty models whose youthful bodies in tousled bedroom sets almost eclipsed the jeans they were selling. Flipping through an old magazine I found an ad that had stuck in my head for years, I had torn it out when I was younger but somehow it had gotten misplaced and or lost over the years. ![]()
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